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Etymology
Depicts a bucket with a handle on the right side. Based on the original meaning "bucket". The meaning of this character has shifted over time and now means "use".
About
The character "用" originated from an early pictographic representation of a vessel or tool, establishing its fundamental association with use and function. In its modern structure, it is an indivisible unit without constituent components. While its core meaning has consistently been "to use" or "utility", it has broadened to encompass ideas such as expenditure, necessity, and application, and it serves grammatical purposes in marking instrumental or purposive relationships in language.
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我用筷子吃饭。
他常用电子邮件。
学习需要用心。
请用中文回答。
这种方法很实用。
我们必须合理用水。
她用幽默感化解了尴尬。
工程师们正在用新技术改进产品。