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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
- —国家公務員Popular(national) government official; national public servant; national government employee
- —地方公務員Popularlocal government employee; local civil servant
- —公安委員会Popularpublic safety commission
- —公式サイトPopularofficial website
- —地方公共団体Popularlocal public body; local government
- —公public affair; government matter; the state; the government; the public; duke; prince; Sir; Lord; familiar or derogatory suffix
- —郭公common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
- —丸公official price
- —公案koan; kōan; Zen question for meditation (e.g. the sound of one hand clapping)
- —公暇leave of absence; furlough
- —公課public imposts; taxes
- —公会public meeting
- —公器public institution
- —公儀imperial court; shogunate government; authorities; public affairs; official; government
- —公義justice; equity
- —公議public opinion; public debate; just view; fair argument; conference at the imperial or shogunal court
- —公休legal holiday
- —公許official permission; government licence (license)
- —公教(Roman) Catholicism
- —公侯princes and marquises; great feudal lords