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.

用 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is modelling a moon (月) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). He uses a stapler (⺆) to staple a lot of capacitors (二) together to form a moon shape, while the real moon is sitting for him.

Characters with 用 as component

Yong River 甬江[Yong3 Jiang1] in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1] / short name for Ningbo
variant of 桶[tong3], bucket / (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter)
path screened by walls on both sides

= + : Mnemonic symbol: The path screened by walls to both sides could be the grave of Marquis Yi of Zeng. In his grave, a massive set of 64 bianzhong bells was found, of which 45 were 甬钟 bells. Thus, I'm going to represent 甬 by one of these yongzhong bells.

= + : Inside of the engine, Yu the Great wanted to learn how to box. She made the right choice to wear boxing gloves, but as she had no punchbag she used a 甬钟. Like a boss she entered the ring through a path screened by walls on both sides. Unfortunately after her first punch she already had to use the first aid kit, because the bell was way too hard.
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Joan of Arc finds a hurt crane in a corner inside of the aorta. The crane hurt itself with a sharp horn earlier, which is now lying in another corner. Joan of Arc pulls out her first aid kit and administers first aid.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a horn.
role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale

= + : Zeus is practising his theatre role just inside the elevator's kitchen: he's gonna play the dying swan. A crane flies by and sees him, thinking Zeus is really dying, and instantly starts administering first aid with a first aid kit he coincidentally carried around.
surname Jue
variant of 寧|宁[ning2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 列宁, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Vladimir Lenin (宁) enters engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) when Nefertiti (ni) is preparing dinner. Nefertiti thinks Lenin wants to start a revolution, so she immediately tries to throw him out, but Lenin tells her he wants to remain peaceful (宁) and learn how to cook. As sign of humility he even takes his graduation cap (宀) and nails (丁) it to the wall.
to hold / to embrace / to wrap around / to gather around (sb) / to throng / to swarm / to support / Taiwan pr. [yong3]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) cut her finger in front of the engine ((e)ng1) and panicked she grabs the next first aid container (用). With the help of a toy claw (扌) she wraps (拥) her whole body in aseptic gauze.
to hold in one's arms; to embrace / to surround; to gather around / to throng; to swarm / (bound form) to support (as in 擁護|拥护[yong1 hu4]) / (literary) to have; to possess / Taiwan pr. [yong3]
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.
commission (for middleman) / brokerage fee
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.

Words with 用

needless to say / it goes without saying
needless to say; it goes without saying
instrument console (diving)
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
unfit for anything / no good / useless / (of a sick person) beyond hope
to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention
you're welcome / don't mention it / no need to stand on ceremony
"keep the change" (restaurant expression)

Sentences with 用

dà
wáng
yào
jiàn
còu
shǒu
hé
yòng
de
bi̅ng
qì
ma
 
 
dào
yě
bù
nán