ordinary / to use

= 广 + + : Yu the Great (yu) crashes with her parachute (广) in front of the engine ((e)ng1) and breaks her leg. Luckily she finds a first aid kit (用) right away, but inside there is just an ordinary (庸) crayon (肀) which she has no use (庸) for.

庸 character breakdown

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a first aid kit. Can you see the cross on the container?

= + : Yu the Great hurt her leg when she slipped in the engine's bathroom. The moon helps her to splint her leg using the bathroom's first aid kit and a dinosaur bone.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Aphrodite tags the space station's bathroom using her crayon.

Characters with 庸 as component

to hire / to employ / servant / hired laborer / domestic help

= + : Yu the Great and Rosa Luxemburg are lying hurt on the ground in front of the engine, and a servant of the engine uses his first aid kit to help them until the ambulance arrives.
large bell
fortified wall / city wall
lethargic
see 鱅魚|鳙鱼[yong1 yu2]
surname Yong / name of a feudal state

Words with 庸

mediocre / indifferent / commonplace
golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary
the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]
Dayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界[Zhang1 jia1 jie4], Hunan
Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区[Chang1 ping2 qu1]
fools have good fortune (idiom)
doctrine of the mean / moderation in all things
ordinary / mediocre

Sentences with 庸

庸 currently does not appear in any sentence.