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  *用* | 用* | *用
to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore
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need not
HSK 1
useful
HSK 1
credit card
HSK 2
to use / to employ / to apply / to make use of
HSK 2
in common usage
HSK 2
to act on; to affect / action; function; activity / impact; result; effect / purpose; intent / (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用, inhibition
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to put to use; to apply / practical; applied (science, linguistics etc) / application; practical use / (computing) app
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useless
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to be applicable
HSK 3
to exploit / to make use of / to use / to take advantage of / to utilize
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cost / expenditure / expense / CL: 筆|笔, 個|个
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to adopt / to employ / to use
HSK 3
to apply in practice / practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science)
HSK 4
use; application
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to use / to put to use
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to use in; to use on; to use for
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user / consumer / subscriber / customer
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to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
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to be used for
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not need / have no use for
HSK 5
special / dedicated
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usage
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articles for use / products / goods
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usefulness / CL: 個|个
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motive / intention / to be diligent or attentive / careful
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to be able to use; useable; to have a use for / (in a question) to be necessary to
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trustworthiness / (commerce) credit / (literary) to trust and appoint
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servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
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trial period / probationary period
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to eat a meal
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side effect
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to try sth out / to be on probation
HSK 7-9
to take (medicine)
HSK 7-9
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
public / for public use
HSK 7-9
to choose for some purpose / to select and use
HSK 7-9
to misuse / to abuse
HSK 7-9
to eat; to consume / edible
HSK 7-9
to exert oneself physically
HSK 7-9
to utilize / to put sth to use
HSK 7-9
to borrow sth for another use / to borrow an idea for one's own use
HSK 7-9
reserve / spare / alternate / backup
HSK 7-9
drinking water; potable water
HSK 7-9
to employ / to hire
HSK 7-9
needless to say; it goes without saying
HSK 7-9
intention / purpose
HSK 7-9
to occupy
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to quote; to cite / to recommend; to appoint / (computing) reference
HSK 7-9
diligent / industrious (in one's studies) / to study hard / to make great effort
HSK 7-9
efficacious / useful
HSK 7-9
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
useful / serviceable / effective / handy / easy to use
to employ; to hire
to enjoy / to reap the benefits (of sth)
comfortable / feeling well
home computer
to start using / (computing) to enable (a feature)
(Tw) (computing) program / application
dual-use
to lease / to hire / to rent (sth from sb)
to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention
to change over to / to switch to / to use (sth different)
drink / drinking or drinkable (water)
external
durable
to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of)
in order to / so as to
to have (sth) for one's own use / (literary) to be opinionated
to apply (sth hitherto used in a different context) / to use (rules, systems, models etc copied from elsewhere) (often implying that they aren't suited to the new situation) / to borrow (a phrase) / (Tw) (computing) to apply (a style, formatting etc)
(Tw) user
commonly used phrase / idiom / colloquial usage
to access / to make use of
to have an effect / to play a role / to be operative / to work / to function
articles for daily use / CL: , 個|个
daily expenses / of everyday use
to transfer (for a specific purpose) / to allocate / (computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)
(for) military use / military application
to be good at using (sth) / to put (sth) to good use
to share the use of; to have joint use of / communal (bathroom); shared (antenna) / to use, in total, ...
to appoint / to assign
applied science
username; user ID
(Tw) application software
coupon / voucher
choice of words / wording / phraseology / term
graphical user interface (GUI)
pocket money / allowance / spending money
usage rights
medicinal use / pharmaceutical
(physics) action force
to put sb in powerful position / to empower
usefulness / effectiveness / (economics) utility
application programming interface (API) (Tw)
to eat in (at a restaurant) (Tw) / to take the medicine orally
function
to use illegitimately; to misappropriate; to embezzle
to exhaust; to use up completely
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
to use (sth) in an ingenious way / marvelously effective use

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