公

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

公 (radical 12 八+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 金戈 (CI), four-corner 8073₂, composition ⿱八厶)

1. fair, equitable
2. public
3. duke
4. male (for animals, not humans)

References

• KangXi: page 126, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1452
• Dae Jaweon: page 277, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 242, character 1
• Unihan data for U+516C

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		公

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng (gong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kang / kong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: kung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹
    • Yale: gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kang / kong
    • Tâi-lô: kang / kong
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁴⁴/, /kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ³⁴/, /kɔŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (公, reconstructed)
Character (公), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kəwŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (公, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
公								gōng								‹ kuwng ›								/*C.qˤoŋ/								impartial, just; public
公								gōng								‹ kuwng ›								/*C.qˤoŋ/								father; prince
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
公					4092					公					東					0					公					/*kloːŋ/

Compounds

• 公筷

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Japanese

Kanji

公

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こう (kō) < こう (kou)
• Kun: おおやけ (ōyake) < おほやけ (ohoyake), きみ (kimi)

Compounds

公安 (こうあん, kōan) 公演 (こうえん, kōen) 公園 (こうえん, kōen) 公開 (こうかい, kōkai) 公共 (こうきょう, kōkyō)

公私 (こうし, kōshi) 公爵 (こうしゃく, kōshaku) 公衆 (こうしゅう, kōshū) 公認 (こうにん, kōnin)

公判 (こうはん, kōhan) 公募 (こうぼ, kōbo) 公報 (こうほう, kōhō) 公式 (こうしき, kōshiki)

Noun

公 (hiragana おおやけ, romaji ōyake, historical hiragana おほやけ)

1. official, governmental

公 (hiragana こう, romaji kō, historical hiragana こう)

1. prince, duke

Pronoun

公 (hiragana きみ, romaji kimi, historical hiragana きみ)

1. Alternative form of 君

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Korean

Hanja

公 (gong)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 공 (revised: gong, McCune-Reischauer: kong)

• Name (hangeul): 공변될()

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Vietnamese

Han character

公 (công)

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