公 gōng
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bound form
public/ common / state-owned
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 3; Guoyu '公' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '公' 2; Unihan '公') -
bound form
official
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 公事 'official matters' (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 1) -
adjective
male
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
Notes: Used to describe the sex of male animals (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 7; Guoyu '公' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '公' 5; NCCED '公' 4) -
noun
duke / lord
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: First of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 (Durrant, Li, and Schaberg 2016, p. xxi; Guoyu '公' n 1; Kroll 2015 '公' 3; NCCED '公' 1; Unihan '公') -
adjective
fair / equitable
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 平正 (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 6; Guoyu '公' n 4; Kroll 2015 '公' 1; Unihan '公') -
noun
Mr. / mister
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '公' n 3; NCCED '公' 2) -
noun
father-in-law
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Husband's father; as in 公公 (Guoyu '公' n 2a; NCCED '公' 3) -
bound form
form of address / your honor
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Often added after the surname, for an older man (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 2; Guoyu '公' n 2b; Kroll 2015 '公' 4) -
adjective
accepted / mutual
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 4; Kroll 2015 '公' 2c) -
adjective
metric
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 公尺 meter (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 5) -
verb
to release to the public
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 公开 (ABC 'gōng' 公 bf 8; Guoyu '公' v 2; Kroll 2015 '公' 2d) -
noun
the common good
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '公' 2b) -
verb
to divide equally
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 平分 (Guoyu '公' v 1) -
proper noun
Gong
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '公' n 6) -
adverb
publicly / openly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '公' adv 1) -
adverb
publicly operated / state run
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 公营 (Guoyu '公' adv 2)
Contained in
- 公认(公認) to be publicly known / to be generally acknowledged
- 先公 deceased father / deceased senior male figure
- 公休 public holiday / official leave / sabbatical
- 不公正 injustice
- 公堂 a law court ; a school
- 秉公 justly / impartially
- 是非自有公论(是非自有公論) to determine right and wrong based on public opinion
- 相公 lord / master / young gentleman / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes
- 办公楼(辦公樓) office building
- 中国船舶重工集团公司(中國船舶重工集團公司) China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC)
- 公畜 stud / male animal kept to breed offspring
- 濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约(瀕危野生動植物種國際貿易公約) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora / CITES
- 公寓 apartment ; apartment building
- 同业公会(同業公會) trade association
- 改葬幽公 they again buriedLord Yu
- 日比谷公园(日比谷公園) Hibiya Park in central Tokyo
- 公开赛(公開賽) championship
- 全资附属公司(全資附屬公司) wholly owned subsidiary
- 公心 desire for the public good / sense of fair play
- 公差 a bailiff
- 公钱(公錢) decagram
- 公路赛(公路賽) road race
- 赵公明(趙公明) Zhao Gongming
- 端公 Duangong ; a bailiff
- 公共交通工具 public transportation
- 公吨(公噸) ton / metric ton
- 公伤(公傷) work-related injury
- 公共行政 public administration
- 公债票(公債票) government bonds
- 军公教(軍公教) army, civil service and education / all branches of state employment
- 公共场所(公共場所) public space / public place
Also contained in
刘公岛 、 白雪公主 、 公钥基础结构 、 廉政公署 、 马公市 、 兰台公子 、 公网 、 陈厉公 、 英国电讯公司 、 夏黄公 、 微软公司 、 雷神公司 、 周公 、 李公朴 、 文公 、 鲁桓公 、 鲁宣公 、 苏花公路 、 北海公园 、 松下公司
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 366
- 卷一 魏書一 武帝紀 Volume 1: Book of Wei 1 - Annals of Emperor Wu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 288
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 267
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 224
- 晉紀 Records of the Jin Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 206
- 卷十 周本紀下第十: 高祖武帝 宣帝 靜帝 Volume 10 Northern Zhou Annals 1: Emperor Gaozu Wu, Emperor Xuan, Emperor Jing History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 201
- 《晉世家》 House of Jin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 198
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 179
- 卷5 帝紀第5 武帝上 Volume 5 Annals 5: Emperor Wu 1 Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 164
- 成公 Lord Cheng The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 163
Collocations
- 公曰 (公曰) 公曰左之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧駟驖 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Si Tie — count: 15
- 公刘 (公劉) 世脩后稷公劉之業 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧旱麓 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Han Lu — count: 12
- 公尸 (公屍) 公尸嘉告 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧既醉 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Ji Jiu — count: 11
- 公及 (公及) 二公及王乃問諸史與百執事 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 9
- 在公 (在公) 夙夜在公 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧采蘩 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Cai Fan — count: 9
- 康公 (康公) 刺康公也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧晨風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Chen Feng — count: 8
- 武公 (武公) 美武公之德也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧淇奧 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Qi Wei — count: 8
- 穆公 (穆公) 國人刺穆公以人從死 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧黃鳥 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Huang Niao — count: 8
- 公命 (公命) 公命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 6
- 笃公 (篤公) 篤公劉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧公劉 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Gong Liu — count: 6