(gōng) - public; fair; official (bound morpheme in many compounds) in Mandarin
gōngTraditional: 公
Translation
public; fair; official (bound morpheme in many compounds)
Word origin
An ideographic compound of 八 (a sign of dividing or sharing) over 厶 (private), depicting the setting aside of the private, hence public, fair and common.
- Origin
- ideographic compound
- Root
- 八 (to divide) + 厶 (private)
Stroke order
公
Examples
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I work at a company.
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He's not in the office.
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This company is very big.
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This matter must be handled openly.
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He works in a public sector unit.
公 (gōng) means public, fair or official as a bound morpheme, appearing in 公司 (gōng sī) "company" and 办公室 (bàn gōng shì) "office".
Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 公.
Used in
Grammar articles
(7)Mandarin Classifiers (Measure Words): 个, 本, 张, 只, 条, and the Rule That Every Counted Noun Needs One
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Asking How + Adjective in Mandarin with 多: 多高, 多远, 多长, 多大
Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words
Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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