Something common or shared; a quality, element, or trait that multiple people or things have in common.
私たちは映画が好きだという共通の趣味がある。
We have a shared hobby of liking movies.
この二つの製品に共通する問題点を洗い出そう。
Let's identify the problems common to these two products.
言語は文化に共通の価値観を反映することが多い。
Languages often reflect values common to a culture.
To be common to; to be shared by (used in the sense that a feature or property applies to multiple items).
これらの症状は全て患者に共通するものではない。
These symptoms are not common to all patients.
問題の原因はクラス全体に共通しているようだ。
The cause of the problem appears to be common across the whole class.
Used as a suffix meaning “common across ~” or “-wide” (as in something that applies to an entire domain/group).
これは業界共通のルールだから、どの会社でも同じだ。
This is an industry-wide rule, so it's the same at any company.