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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
formula
HSK 5
BCE (before the Common Era) / BC (before Christ)
public interest
listed company
company meeting
apartment building / CL:
public; common; communal
HSK 3
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
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
public school
boar
nominal
husband and wife
cock; rooster
HSK 6
Karakorum Highway, linking Pakistan and Xinjiang
doll / cuddly toy
public ethics / social morality
joint announcement
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
Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 過庭錄|过庭录
post / announcement
HSK 5
office; business premises
HSK 2
metric units
subsidiary company / branch office
public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
HSK 7-9
public security bureau
public
HSK 6
open letter
HSK 7-9
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
to announce; to make public; to publish
HSK 3
public enterprise, as opposed to private enterprise 私營企業|私营企业
national park
public transportation / mass transit / abbr. for 公共交通
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
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
liter
parent company
State Grid Corporation of China
public transport vehicle / town bus / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 2
Microsoft Corporation
arms company
Johnson & Johnson
fair dealing
official account (on a social networking platform)
British Petroleum, BP
transnational corporation / multinational corporation
publicly owned / communal / held in common
to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
HSK 6
fair trade
public figure / famous person
public security authorities, acronym from 公安局, 檢察院|检察院 and 法院
office building / CL: , 棟|栋
public (e.g. school, hospital)
HSK 7-9
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
open; overt; public / to make public; to release
HSK 3
CE (Common Era) / Christian Era / AD (Anno Domini)
HSK 4
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
Procter & Gamble
public place
HSK 7-9
Gregorian calendar / solar calendar
civil rights / citizenship rights
bull
Hewlett-Packard / HP
Apple Inc.
Panasonic Corporation (formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.)
centimeter (cm) / gram (g)
public phone / CL:
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
public transport / mass transit
official seal
civil obligation / a citizen's duty
The Coca-Cola Company
paperless office
(coll.) husband
HSK 4
(coll.) eunuch / see also 老公
gentlemen (form of address)
office building
public health
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
to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom)
IC card used for paying fares on public transportation systems such as buses and subways
public relations
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
Dagong Bao, popular newspaper name / Ta Kung Pao, newspaper founded 1902 in Beijing, now published in Hong Kong
public holiday

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