公

public; fair

No. 65 most used

How it's built

• 八divide
• 厶private

A way to remember it

Divide (八) what's private (厶): now it's public.

Words

• 公司

  gōng sī

  company; firm; corporation; CL:家
• 办公室

  bàn gōng shì

  office; business premises
• 公寓

  gōng yù

  apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:套)
• 公主

  gōng zhǔ

  princess
• 老公

  lǎo gōng

  (coll.) husband
• 公平

  gōng píng

  fair; impartial

Sentences

• 他们不是公司员工吗？

  tā men bú shì gōng sī yuán gōng ma

  Are they not company employees?
• 他是中国的公民。

  tā shì zhōng guó de gōng mín

  He's a citizen of China.
• 你认为那公平吗？

  nǐ rèn wéi nà gōng píng ma

  Do you think that was fair?
• 我是美国的公民。

  wǒ shì měi guó de gōng mín

  I'm an American citizen.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.