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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
- —雷公thunder
- —公妃noble's consort; consort of a prince; consort of a duke; duchess; princess
- —公簿public record; public register; official records
- —公主princess
- —公女young noblewoman; princess
- —乃公I; me
- —公船public vessel
- —公妨interference with a public servant in the execution of his or her duties
- —諸公high-ranking officials; ministers; ladies and gentlemen; everyone
- —公委public safety commission
- —王公royalty and nobility; noble; aristocrat
- —愚公Yu Gong (main character in the 4th century BC Chinese fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains"); Yúgōng; Yukong
- —公宅government-provided housing for civil servants (esp. in Hokkaidō); public housing
- —ハチ公Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)
- —公安官railway police
- —公海上on the high seas
- —公開状open letter
- —公休日legal holiday
- —公共債government bond
- —公共心public spirit