公 (gōng)
public/male (animal)/grandfather
How 公 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 八 — eight/divide
- Traditional
- 公
- Simplified
- 公 (unchanged)
Components
- 八 eight/divide
- 厶 private
Common words using 公
- 公主 gōngzhǔ
- princess
- 公交 gōngjiāo
- public transportation; mass transit
- 公司 gōngsī
- (business) company; company; firm
- 公園 gōngyuán
- public park; CL:場|场[chang3]
- 公寓 gōngyù
- apartment building; block of flats; CL:套[tao4]
- 公民 gōngmín
- citizen
- 公路 gōnglù
- highway; road; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 公里 gōnglǐ
- kilometer
- 老公 lǎogōng
- (informal) husband
- 辦公室 bàngōngshì
- office; business premises; bureau
- 不公 bùgōng
- unjust; unfair
- 主人公 zhǔréngōng
- hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
公 in a sentence
我每天搭公車上班。
Wǒ měitiān dā gōngchē shàngbān.
“I take the bus to work every day.”
How common is 公?
公 is the 115th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 44.5% of all running text.
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