公 (gung1 | gong1) : public; common; international; impartial

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公

gung1

gong1

[1] [adj] public; official; collective | [antonym] 私
[2] [adj] common; generally accepted/acknowledged
[3] [adj] international; universal; of the world
[4] [v] make public; open to all
[5] [adj] fair; just; impartial; unbiased
[6] [n] grandfather; father-in-law
[7] [n] (of an animal) male
[8] [n] duke – first of old China’s 5 grades of the nobility
[9] [n] mister (Mr) – a term of address for elderly man

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Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 八 (#12)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

公

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白公 baak6 gung1 = great grandfather [粵] 粵

公平 gung1 ping4 gong1 ping2 = fair, equitable

公仔 gung1 zai2 = a doll 粵

公園 gung1 jyun4*2 gong1 yuan2 = public park; public gardens

狗公 gau2 gung1 gou3 gong1 = dog (also 公狗); a "dog man"; a "john" 粵

公狗 gung1 gau2 gong1 gou3 = a male dog ([粵]: 狗公)

公道 gung1 dou6 gong1 dao5 = justice; fair, reasonable

公廁 gung1 ci3 = public toilet; public convenience; public loo

公仔麵 gung1 zai2 min6 = instant noodles 粵

公共汽車 gung1 gung6 hei3 ce1 gong1 gong4 qi4 che1 = bus 國
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Showing 10 of 21 examples containing 公

星期日係公眾假期。粵
Sunday is a public holiday.

佢晚晚都行公司粵
She goes shopping every night.
[Lit. She evening-evening also walk-company]

我覺得行公司好悶粵
I think going shopping is boring.
[Lit. I feel walk-company very-boring.]

我覺得行公司會悶死我粵
Going shopping bores me to death.
[Lit. I feel walk-company would boring die me]

你相信有聖誕老公公嗎？國
Do you believe in Father Christmas?

你不乖的話，聖誕老公公就不會送你禮物了！國
If you aren't a good boy, Santa won't bring you any presents!

其實呢，我有老公㗎…仲有個女添粵
Actually, I have a husband... and a daughter to boot!
[呢 is sometimes used to separate conjunctive adverbs from the rest of the sentence: equally valid would be 咁其實呢.]

我聽朝喺六點鐘開工，所以我今晚唔可以行公司粵
I‘ve got to start work at six tomorrow, so I can't go shopping tonight.
[Lit. I tomorrow morning at six o'clock start-work, therefore I this-evening cannot go-shopping]

間辦公室俾啲細路搞到立立亂。粵
The office was turned upside-down by the kids.
[[parsing] (classifier) office by (plural classifier) kids make (extent particle) chaotic http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,128766 ]

佢偷公司錢﹐結果冇咗份工。粵
He stole money from the company and has, consequently, lost his job.
[Compared with English version, a typical Cantonese sentence does not need article (the), pronoun (his), preposition (from), and conjunction (and). But it needs a classifier (份) not found in English version. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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Decimal representation of this word: 公
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