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yōng

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English Definition	ordinary; to use
Simplified Script	庸
Traditional Script	Same
Pinyin	yōng
Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi)	Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)	ㄩㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	jung⁴

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Words With Same Head Word
庸俗	yōngsú	vulgar; tacky; tawdry
庸人自扰	yōngrén zì rǎo	lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing; to make problems for oneself
庸人	yōngrén	mediocre person
庸俗化	yōngsú huà	debasement; vulgarization
庸才	yōngcái	mediocrity

Words With Same Tail Word
中庸	zhōngyōng	golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary; the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四书
平庸	píngyōng	mediocre; indifferent; commonplace
金庸	jīnyōng	Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武侠 novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
附庸	fùyōng	vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage
昏庸	hūnyōng	muddleheaded

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