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HSK
office; business premises
HSK 2
public; common; communal
HSK 3
public transport vehicle / town bus / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 2
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  *办* | 办* | *办
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event) / to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise) / (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect) / (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办, admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室)
HSK 2
formula
HSK 5
to announce; to make public; to publish
HSK 3
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
open; overt; public / to make public; to release
HSK 3
fair / impartial
HSK 2
HSK 2
kilometer
HSK 2
kilogram (kg)
HSK 2
CE (Common Era) / Christian Era / AD (Anno Domini)
HSK 4
highway / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
post / announcement
HSK 5
(coll.) husband
HSK 4
company; firm; corporation / CL:
HSK 2
citizen
HSK 3
park (for public recreation) / CL:
HSK 2
cock; rooster
HSK 6
expressway; highway; freeway
HSK 3
high speed / expressway (abbr. for 高速公路)
HSK 3
public
HSK 6
to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
HSK 6
just; fair; equitable
HSK 5
(Ministry of) Public Security / public safety / public security
HSK 6
(lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / (fig.) something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it
nickname for CCTV-6 (China Movie Channel)
princess
HSK 6
public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
HSK 7-9
open letter
HSK 7-9
Daoist priest (esp. in folk religion) / teacher's teacher (in academic or apprenticeship lineage)
grandmother's brother
BCE (before the Common Era) / BC (before Christ)
public (e.g. school, hospital)
HSK 7-9
public place
HSK 7-9
father of one's child's spouse
public interest
to make known to the public (for information or to seek comments) / public notification
HSK 7-9
listed company
(PRC) national civil service exam (abbr. for 國家公務員考試|国家公务员考试) / (Tw) national examination for civil service recruitment or professional licensing
public relations
HSK 7-9
work-related matters / documents
HSK 7-9
company meeting
apartment building / CL:
public / for public use
HSK 7-9
selfless / impartial
HSK 7-9
lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试) / (Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)
HSK 6
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
public school
publicly known (to be) / accepted (as)
HSK 5
boar
nominal
apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:)
HSK 7-9
husband and wife
Karakorum Highway, linking Pakistan and Xinjiang
doll / cuddly toy
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织)
bus / abbr. for 公共汽車|公共汽车 / car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc) / abbr. for 公務用車|公务用车
HSK 7-9
public ethics / social morality
joint announcement
public servant / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP (abbr. for 中共中央辦公廳|中共中央办公厅)
(publishing) public-domain; copyright-expired / (design, manufacturing etc) standard shared design or template; stock, non-custom version
Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公|黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of “Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略|黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
routine business / usual practice / mere formality
metric system
charity event / public service activities
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙
guild; professional or trade association
official reserves / accumulated fund
HSK 7-9
Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 過庭錄|过庭录
metric units
subsidiary company / branch office
public security bureau
public placement (investing)
public intellectual (sometimes used derogatorily) (abbr. for 公共知識分子|公共知识分子)
embassy (old term) / foreign mission
variant of 公布
HSK 3
public enterprise, as opposed to private enterprise 私營企業|私营企业
national park
public cemetery
HSK 7-9
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
public transportation / mass transit / abbr. for 公共交通
hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
HSK 7-9
minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
public health (abbr. for 公共衛生|公共卫生)
public transport station
public facilities; infrastructure
hectare
HSK 7-9
liter
parent company
State Grid Corporation of China
Microsoft Corporation
arms company
openly / publicly / undisguised
HSK 7-9
Johnson & Johnson
fair dealing

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