gōng

public; fair; just

HSK 2 #115

Character data

HSK 2
Frequency 115th character
Radical ⼋ (12.2)
Strokes 4
Index # 148

Definitions

公 gōng
  1. 1. public
  2. 2. fair
  3. 3. just
  4. 4. common
  5. 5. make public
  6. 6. collectively owned
  7. 7. international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar)
  8. 8. male (animal)
  9. 9. honorable (gentlemen)
  10. 10. father-in-law
  11. 11. Duke, highest of five orders of nobility wǔ děng jué wèi

Stroke order

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Words containing 公

Word Meaning
public prosecutor; district attorney; procurator
public phone
public welfare; public good
public charges (law)
open (as in "the US Open"); (sports) open championship
Snow White
limited company; corporation
Lei Gong, the Chinese god of thunder
apartment building
guild
department store
husband's father; grandpa; eunuch
to perform (e.g. on the stage); to lecture
to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom)
document
civil rights; citizenship rights
centimeter; gram
public enemy
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
meter (unit of length)
convention (i.e. international agreement)
office building
public toilet
dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum)
subsidiary company; subsidiary corporation