use, employ, apply, operate; use
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
用
yòng
use, employ, apply, operate; use
Every figure on this page is a live query of the corpus record.
Where it lives
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 103 · 58.55/10k
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 37 · 26.85/10k
- Analects (Lunyu) 21 · 13.11/10k
- Mencius 46 · 12.97/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
In the wild
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
- 用 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十一章
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Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).