使用

Character by character

• 使shǐ8 strokesHSK 2cause, send on a mission, order; envoy, messenger, ambassador
• 用yòng5 strokesHSK 1use, employ, apply, operate; use

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我使用这个。

  Wǒ shǐ yòng zhè ge

  I use this.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 使用. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 用yòngHSK 1

  to use; to employ; to have to; to eat or drink; expense or outlay; usefulness; hence; therefore

• 使shǐHSK 3

  to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger

• 利用lì yòngHSK 3

  to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize

• 作用zuò yòngHSK 2

  to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

• 即使jí shǐHSK 5

  even if; even though

• 不用bù yòngHSK 1

  need not

• 费用fèi yòngHSK 3

  cost; expenditure; expense

• 使得shǐ deHSK 5

  usable; workable; feasible; doable; to make; to cause

• 用于yòng yúHSK 5

  to use in; to use on; to use for

• 采用cǎi yòngHSK 3

  to adopt; to employ; to use

• 天使tiān shǐHSK 7

  angel

• 用来yòng láiHSK 5

  to be used for

• 运用yùn yòngHSK 4

  to use; to put to use

• 信用卡xìn yòng kǎHSK 2

  credit card

• 用户yòng hùHSK 5

  user; consumer; subscriber; customer

• 有用yǒu yòngHSK 1

  useful

• 没用méi yòngHSK 3

  useless

• 用品yòng pǐnHSK 6

  articles for use; products; goods

• 服用fú yòngHSK 7

  to take (medicine)

• 使命shǐ mìngHSK 7

  mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling

• 大使dà shǐHSK 6

  ambassador; envoy

• 适用shì yòngHSK 3

  to be applicable

• 应用yìng yòngHSK 3

  to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc); application; practical use; (computing) app

• 用心yòng xīnHSK 6

  motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful