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HSK
public; common; communal
HSK 3
formula
HSK 5
park (for public recreation) / CL:
HSK 2
to announce; to make public; to publish
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
fair / impartial
HSK 2
kilometer
HSK 2
kilogram (kg)
HSK 2
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
open; overt; public / to make public; to release
HSK 3
CE (Common Era) / Christian Era / AD (Anno Domini)
HSK 4
highway / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
post / announcement
HSK 5
public transport vehicle / town bus / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 2
(coll.) husband
HSK 4
company; firm; corporation / CL:
HSK 2
office; business premises
HSK 2
citizen
HSK 3
public
HSK 6
expressway; highway; freeway
HSK 3
HSK 2
just; fair; equitable
HSK 5
(Ministry of) Public Security / public safety / public security
HSK 6
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
princess
HSK 6
public relations
HSK 7-9
public place
HSK 7-9
public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
HSK 7-9
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
BCE (before the Common Era) / BC (before Christ)
public (e.g. school, hospital)
HSK 7-9
publicly known (to be) / accepted (as)
HSK 5
cock; rooster
HSK 6
to make known to the public (for information or to seek comments) / public notification
HSK 7-9
listed company
work-related matters / documents
HSK 7-9
public / for public use
HSK 7-9
Shell (oil company)
official business
HSK 7-9
public trial (in a court of law)
apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:)
HSK 7-9
official reserves / accumulated fund
HSK 7-9
doll / cuddly toy
the enemy of the people / the class enemy (Marxism)
public ethics / social morality
routine business / usual practice / mere formality
metric system
flag carrier
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙
the parallel postulate (geometry) / Euclid's fifth postulate
arbitration (law)
guild
hectare
HSK 7-9
Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 過庭錄|过庭录
subsidiary company / branch office
public placement (investing)
public intellectual (sometimes used derogatorily) (abbr. for 公共知識分子|公共知识分子)
public cemetery
HSK 7-9
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
charity event / public service activities
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
at public expense
HSK 7-9
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
public transport station
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
liter
parent company
openly / publicly / undisguised
HSK 7-9
fair dealing
publicly owned / communal / held in common
civil service / public office / government job
HSK 7-9
public relations
public good; public welfare; public interest
HSK 7-9
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
bull
Hewlett-Packard / HP
Panasonic Corporation (formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.)
centimeter (cm) / gram (g)
Methodists
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
theme park
public transport / mass transit
official seal
startup company
public money
HSK 7-9
(coll.) eunuch / see also 老公
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
self-evident truth / (math.) axiom
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
official document
IC card used for paying fares on public transportation systems such as buses and subways
the high seas; international waters
Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
public security authorities, acronym from 公安局, 檢察院|检察院 and 法院
Johnson & Johnson
public holiday
commune

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