常用

Chinese

		always; ever; often always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant	to use
simp. and trad. (常用)		常	用

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chángyòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄩㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁴ jung⁶

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siông-ēng / siâng-iōng / siông-iōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chángyòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄩㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chángyòng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²-yung⁴
    • Yale: cháng-yùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charngyonq
    • Palladius: чанъюн (čanʺjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng⁴ jung⁶
    • Yale: sèuhng yuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁴ jung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng⁴ yung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ²¹ jʊŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông-ēng
    • Tâi-lô: siông-īng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siong'eng
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ iɪŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² iɪŋ⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ iɪŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² iɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâng-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: siâng-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siang'iong
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siaŋ¹³⁻²² iɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: siông-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siong'iong
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ iɔŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ iɔŋ³³/

Adjective

常用

1. commonly used; in common use

   常用容積單位升和毫升，也可以寫成 L和 mL。 [MSC, trad.]
   常用容积单位升和毫升，也可以写成 L和 mL。 [MSC, simp.]

   Chángyòng róngjī dānwèi shēng hé háoshēng, yě kěyǐ xiě chéng L hé mL. [Pinyin]

   Commonly used volume units such as litres and millilitres can also be written as L and mL.

Antonyms

• 罕用 (hǎnyòng)

Derived terms

• 常用字
• 常用對數 / 常用对数 (chángyòng duìshù)
• 常用詞 / 常用词 (chángyòngcí)

Related terms

• 常見／常见 (chángjiàn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
常	用
じょう Grade: 5	よう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じょーよー [jòóyóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ːjo̞ː]

Noun

常(じょう)用(よう) • (jōyō) ^{←じゃうよう (zyauyou)?}

1. common use; something that is commonly used
2. regular use, habitual use

Derived terms

• 常用者(じょうようしゃ) (jōyōsha)
• 常用漢字(じょうようかんじ) (jōyō kanji)
• 常用工(じょうようこう) (jōyōkō)
• 常用時(じょうようじ) (jōyōji)
• 常用手段(じょうようしゅだん) (jōyō shudan)
• 常用対数(じょうようたいすう) (jōyō taisū)
• 常用労働者(じょうようろうどうしゃ) (jōyō rōdōsha)

Verb

常(じょう)用(よう)する • (jōyō suru) transitive suru (stem 常(じょう)用(よう)し (jōyō shi), past 常(じょう)用(よう)した (jōyō shita))

1. use regularly; make daily use of

Conjugation

Conjugation of "常用する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	常用し	じょうようし	jōyō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	常用し	じょうようし	jōyō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	常用する	じょうようする	jōyō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	常用する	じょうようする	jōyō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	常用すれ	じょうようすれ	jōyō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	常用せよ¹ 常用しろ²	じょうようせよ¹ じょうようしろ²	jōyō seyo¹ jōyō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	常用される	じょうようされる	jōyō sareru
Causative	常用させる 常用さす	じょうようさせる じょうようさす	jōyō saseru jōyō sasu
Potential	常用できる	じょうようできる	jōyō dekiru
Volitional	常用しよう	じょうようしよう	jōyō shiyō
Negative	常用しない	じょうようしない	jōyō shinai
Negative continuative	常用せず	じょうようせず	jōyō sezu
Formal	常用します	じょうようします	jōyō shimasu
Perfective	常用した	じょうようした	jōyō shita
Conjunctive	常用して	じょうようして	jōyō shite
Hypothetical conditional	常用すれば	じょうようすれば	jōyō sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

• Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

• “常用”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
常	用

Noun

常用 • (sang'yong) (hangeul 상용)

1. hanja form^? of 상용