用光

Chinese

		to use	light; ray; bright
simp. and trad. (用光)		用	光

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yòngguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung⁶ gwong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yòngguāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yòngguang
    • Wade–Giles: yung⁴-kuang¹
    • Yale: yùng-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yonqguang
    • Palladius: юнгуан (junguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jung⁶ gwong¹
    • Yale: yuhng gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung⁶ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung⁶ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ²² kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

用光

1. to exhaust; to use up completely; to deplete

   上個月你給我的錢都用光了。 [MSC, trad.]
   上个月你给我的钱都用光了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Shàng ge yuè nǐ gěi wǒ de qián dōu yòngguāng le. [Pinyin]

   All the money you gave me last month has been used up.

Synonyms

• 枯竭 (kūjié) (figurative)
• 用掉 (yòngdiào)
• 用盡／用尽 (yòngjìn)
• 窮盡／穷尽 (qióngjìn)
• 竭盡／竭尽 (jiéjìn)
• 絕／绝 (jué)
• 耗盡／耗尽 (hàojìn)
• 致 (zhì) (literary, or in compounds)