用
yòng
to use; to make use of; to employ
(coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
a picture of 用 → a vessel shaped for purpose
用 is an ancient pictograph thought to depict a bucket or vessel with a dividing line — something shaped to hold and serve a purpose. The idea of a contained, functional object naturally extended to the broad concept of use and utility.
Words with 用
耐用
nài yòng
durable
通用性
tōng yòng xìng
universality
通用字符集
tōng yòng zì fú jí
universal character set UCS
通用
tōng yòng
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc)
通用串行总线
tōng yòng chuàn xíng zǒng xiàn
(computing) Universal Serial Bus; USB
通用人工智能
tōng yòng rén gōng zhì néng
artificial general intelligence (AGI)
通用拼音
tōng yòng pīn yīn
the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003
通用汽车
tōng yòng qì chē
General Motors (car company)
通用汽车公司
tōng yòng qì chē gōng sī
General Motors
通用汉字标准交换码
tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ
abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]
通用码
tōng yòng mǎ
Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard (abbr. for 通用漢字標準交換碼|通用汉字标准交换码[Tong1 yong4 Han4 zi4 Biao1 zhun3 Jiao1 huan4 ma3])
通用语
tōng yòng yǔ
common language