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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
- —公開文種別public text class
- —公衆回線網public network
- —公衆電線網public wireline network
- —公衆電話網public telephone network
- —公立図書館public library
- —公理的方法axiomatic method
- —四大公害病the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan
- —公開質問状open letter (of inquiry)
- —公衆トイレpublic toilet; public restroom
- —公共の福祉public welfare
- —公民権運動civil rights movement (esp. American)
- —公立中学校public junior high school
- —新規公開株newly listed stocks; new stock offering
- —国公立大学national, prefectural and other public universities and colleges
- —公民権停止suspension of civil rights
- —公知の事実common knowledge; public knowledge; well-known fact
- —資産公開法1992 Property Disclosure Act; law requiring members of parliament to disclose their assets
- —忠犬ハチ公faithful dog Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)
- —低周波公害low-frequency noise pollution; low-frequency pollution
- —世代間公平intergenerational equity