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庸 — Commonplace

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary school#2038 most used
commonplace, ordinary, employment
On’yomiヨウ (you)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (11 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 庸

WordReadingMeaning
凡庸ぼんよう
bonyou
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace

Study notes

庸 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 11 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2038 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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