寻常

尋常

xúncháng

adjective HSK 7-9 #4,104

Meanings

Both characters convey 'ordinary' - an emphatic word for commonplace

HSK 2

这不是一件寻常的事。

Zhè bù shì yī jiàn xúncháng de shì.

This is no ordinary matter.

HSK 6

他看起来和寻常人没什么两样。

Tā kànqǐlái hé xúncháng rén méishénme liǎngyàng.

He looks no different from an ordinary person.

寻常 is more literary than 普通 or 平常. Often used in formal writing or set phrases like 不同寻常 (extraordinary).

寻 xún

常 cháng