利用

Character by character

• 利lì7 strokesHSK 2gains, advantage, profit, merit
• 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

• 我不想被利用。

  Wǒ bù xiǎng bèi lì yòng

  I don't want to be used.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 利用. 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

• 使用shǐ yòngHSK 2

  to use; to employ; to apply; to make use of

• 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

• 不用bù yòngHSK 1

  need not

• 利lìHSK 6

  sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit

• 胜利shèng lìHSK 3

  victory

• 顺利shùn lìHSK 2

  smoothly; without a hitch

• 权利quán lìHSK 4

  right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth

• 利益lì yìHSK 4

  benefit; (in sb's) interest

• 费用fèi yòngHSK 3

  cost; expenditure; expense

• 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

• 用来yòng láiHSK 5

  to be used for

• 运用yùn yòngHSK 4

  to use; to put to use

• 利润lì rùnHSK 5

  profits

• 信用卡xìn yòng kǎHSK 2

  credit card

• 有利yǒu lìHSK 3

  advantageous; favorable

• 用户yòng hùHSK 5

  user; consumer; subscriber; customer

• 不利bù lìHSK 5

  unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental

• 福利fú lìHSK 5

  material benefit; benefit in kind; (social) welfare

• 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)