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通用

tōng yòng

HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 5

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Definitions

1. to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc)
2. to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc)
3. (of two or more things) interchangeable

Words Containing 通用

tōng yòng diàn qì

General Electric (GE)

通用汽车公司

tōng yòng qì chē gōng sī

General Motors

tōng yòng qì chē

General Motors (car company)

通用串行总线

tōng yòng chuàn xíng zǒng xiàn

Universal Serial Bus, USB (computer)

通用汉字标准交换码

tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ

Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard

tōng yòng pīn yīn

the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003

字根通用码

zì gēn tōng yòng mǎ

common coding for components of Chinese character

tōng yòng yǔ

common language

tōng yòng diàn qì

General Electric (GE)

通用字符集

tōng yòng zì fú jí

universal character set UCS

tōng yòng xìng

universality

Child Words of 通用

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

to use