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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
- —公害物質pollutant
- —公共支出public expenditure; public outlay; public spending
- —最終公演final performance; last performance
- —公的支援public support; official support; public aid
- —公文書館public records office; archives
- —公式行事official function; state function
- —公開書簡open letter
- —公同書簡General Epistles (James, Peter, Jude, John); Catholic Epistles; General Letters
- —女主人公heroine; female protagonist
- —万国公法international laws
- —公営競技government-controlled gambling sport (Japan); gambling sport under the control of a local authority
- —公益財団public utility foundation
- —公害防止pollution control; pollution prevention
- —六公四民land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
- —公安警察security police
- —斑冠郭公great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)
- —公転運動orbital motion
- —公開処刑public execution; public embarrassment
- —情報公開freedom of information; access to information; disclosure of information (e.g. by the government); releasing information (of an organization or an individual); making public
- —児童公園children's park; children's playground