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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
- —電電公社(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
- —郵政公社Japan Post (2003-2007) (abbr)
- —線形公園linear park
- —公開図書館public library
- —公共図書館public library
- —公衆ブースpublic booth; public kiosk
- —公然の秘密open secret
- —公認候補者official candidate
- —非公式協議informal discussion
- —不公平競争unfair competition
- —無利息公債non interest-bearing bond
- —公共企業体public or government corporation
- —公安調査庁Public Security Intelligence Agency
- —公定割引率official discount rate
- —公武合体論idea of uniting the court and the shogunate (late Edo period)
- —公害病患者victim of a pollution-caused illness
- —公称資本金nominal capital
- —公務員試験civil service examination
- —公証人役場notary office
- —公開討論会open forum