(shǐ yòng) - to use, to employ in Mandarin

shǐyòng

Traditional: 使用

HSK 3

#696 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to use, to employ

Word origin

A compound of 使 (shǐ) 'to cause, to employ' and 用 (yòng) 'to use'. 使 carries the 亻(person) radical with 吏 (official) alongside; 用 is an early pictograph variously read as a bucket or a tablet. The word means to use or to employ.

Origin: compound
Root: 使 (shǐ, to employ: 亻person + 吏) + 用 (yòng, to use)

Stroke order

使

用

Examples

具jù。

Please use this tool correctly.

。

I often use the computer.

具jù？

How do you use this tool?

台tái。

Please use this machine correctly.

具jù。

This tool is very convenient to use.

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This word is part of lesson 14.