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yòng = yu + (e)ng4: to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore

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

Yu the Great (yu) hurt his leg when he slipped in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The moon (月) helps him to splint his leg using (用) the bathroom's first aid kit (用) and a dinosaur bone (丨).

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用 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
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Characters with 用 as component

commission (for middleman) / brokerage fee
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to hire / to employ / servant / hired laborer / domestic help
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angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4]
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role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale
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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]
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to hold / to embrace / to wrap around / to gather around (sb) / to throng / to swarm / to support / Taiwan pr. [yong3]
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path screened by walls on both sides
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Yong River 甬江[Yong3 Jiang1] in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1] / short name for Ningbo
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variant of 桶[tong3], bucket / (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter)
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Words with 用

to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of)
needless to say / it goes without saying
useful / helpful / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 yong4]
unfit for anything / no good / useless / (of a sick person) beyond hope
instrument console (diving)
you're welcome / don't mention it / no need to stand on ceremony
"keep the change" (restaurant expression)
to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention
You're welcome / Don't mention it
no first use (policy for nuclear weapons) / NFU
adopting Western knowledge for its practical uses while keeping Chinese values as the core
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle

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