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公 kanji
public, prince, official, governmental
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コウク
Kun readings
おおやけ
Words with 公
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —公傷制度official injury exemption system; system for exempting players injured in an official match from pay reduction or demotion
- —公私混同mixing of public and private affairs; mixing business with personal affairs; mixing work and private matters
- —凱旋公演performance given after a successful tour abroad
- —近隣公害(noise, smell, air, water) pollution in the neighborhood
- —公正無私fair and impartial; just and unselfish
- —女中奉公domestic service; working as a housemaid; domestic help; domestic helper
- —白昼公然openly and in broad daylight
- —武家奉公service with a samurai family; serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.)
- —七公三民land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
- —低公害車low-emission vehicle
- —熊公八公uncultured but well-intentioned person; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs
- —政権公約policy statement; manifesto
- —公式参拝official visit to a shrine (or temple)
- —運動公園sports park; athletic park; stadium
- —公立高校public high school
- —公開討論public debate; open discussion
- —海浜公園beachfront park; park by the sea
- —四公六民land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
- —五公五民land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
- —公認欠席authorized absence; permission of absence from class(es)