用

to use

No. 47 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

Looks like a wooden bucket: a thing made to be used.

Words

• 不用

  bú yòng

  need not
• 使用

  shǐ yòng

  to use; to employ; to apply
• 利用

  lì yòng

  to exploit; to make use of; to use
• 没用

  méi yòng

  useless
• 用来

  yòng lái

  to be used for
• 有用

  yǒu yòng

  useful

Sentences

• 他的建议完全没用。

  tā de jiàn yì wán quán méi yòng

  His advice didn't help at all.
• 你会用这台相机吗？

  nǐ huì yòng zhè tái xiāng jī ma

  Do you know how to use this camera?
• 你的时间快用完了。

  nǐ de shí jiān kuài yòng wán le

  Your time is running out.
• 你知道怎么使用吗？

  nǐ zhī dào zěn me shǐ yòng ma

  Do you know how to use this?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.