庸
yōng HSK7

usual

庸 yōng
mediocre adjective
Ordinary or commonplace; lacking in talent or quality.
to use adjective
(literary) To use or employ; often used in the negative to mean there is no need for something.
[rhetorical]
(literary) Used to form a rhetorical question, similar to "how" or "could it be that...".
merit
(literary) Merit or achievement; contribution
hired laborer
(literary) Hired worker or servant
surname
A Chinese surname
to compensate
(literary) To reward for services or compensate for merit; to pay for work done

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,148th most common 30.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,538th most common 8.07 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.62 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5EB8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)