通用
tōng​yòng HSK5

in common use

通用 tōng​yòng
in common use adjective
to be in common use or used everywhere; general; valid for use anywhere and anytime (as of a card, ticket, etc.)

长期以来，音乐一直被称作人类的通用语言。

cháng​qī​yǐ​lái, yīn​yuè yī​zhí bèi chēng​zuò rén​lèi de tōng​yòng yǔ​yán.

Music has long been called the universal language of humankind.

interchangeable
can be used in place of one another; compatible or universal
General Motors
(proper noun) short for 通用汽车 tōng​yòng​qì​chē, referring to the American automotive company

Frequency
Movie subtitles
2.62 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
26.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 5

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)