用
yòng HSK1

use

用 yòng
to use verb
To use; to employ; to apply or make use of something to achieve a purpose.

你不能用你没有的东西。

nǐ bù​néng yòng nǐ méi​yǒu de dōng​xi.

You cannot use what you do not have.

有人等着要用电话。

yǒu rén děng zhe yào yòng diàn​huà.

There's someone waiting to use the phone.

with preposition
Used to introduce the tool, method, or means by which an action is performed, meaning "using" or "with".

用这个电话打给他。

yòng zhè​ge diàn​huà dǎ gěi tā.

Use this phone to call him.

用你的声音控制你的电视。

yòng nǐ de shēng​yīn kòng​zhì nǐ de diàn​shì.

Control your TV with your voice.

usefulness noun
Usefulness; utility; the effect or function of something.

担心有什么用？

dān xīn yǒu shén​me yòng?

What's the use of worrying?

说谎也没有用。

shuō huǎng yě méi​yǒu yòng.

There's no use lying.

to need verbauxiliary
To need or have to; this use is frequently found in questions or negative statements such as 不用 bù​yòng.

我甚至不用付钱给他。

wǒ shèn​zhì bù yòng fù qián gěi tā.

I don’t even have to pay him.

to eat verb
(courteous) To eat or drink; often used in formal settings when offering food or drink to guests.
expense noun
(bound form) An expense; an outlay or the cost of something.
hence
(literary) Therefore; hence; for this reason.
Yong
A surname.
radical
The 101st Kangxi radical.
to drink
(polite) To drink (tea, wine, etc.)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
51st most common 2767.3 per million
Movie subtitles
99th most common 1692.9 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1563.1 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
1089.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+7528

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