Public in Chinese
public · HSK 4
公共
- 公 public
- 共 together
Other ways to say public
More words with 公 or 共
How do you say public in Chinese?
Public in Chinese is 公共 (gōng gòng). You can also say 大众 (dà zhòng), 公 (gōng), 公开 (gōng kāi), 公众 (gōng zhòng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.