He shares a room with his brother.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
共用
to share the use of; to have joint use of
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to share the use of; to have joint use of
02
communal (bathroom); shared (antenna)
03
to use, in total
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 共用 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 共用 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My brother and I shared the room.
I share a bedroom with my sister.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 共用.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 共用.
Directly before
- 作为共用1
- 姐姐共用1
- 你共用1
- 我共用1
- 为共用1
Directly after
- 共用这2
- 共用一个2
- 共用的1
- 共用同一1
- 共用这张1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 共用
What does 共用 mean in Chinese?
共用 (gòngyòng) means to share the use of; to have joint use of.
How do you pronounce 共用?
共用 is pronounced gòngyòng.
Is 共用 an HSK word?
共用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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