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HSK
public; common; communal
HSK 3
public transport vehicle / town bus / CL: 輛|辆
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
company; firm; corporation / CL:
HSK 2
citizen
HSK 3
park (for public recreation) / CL:
HSK 2
cock; rooster
HSK 6
public
HSK 6
just; fair; equitable
HSK 5
(Ministry of) Public Security / public safety / public security
HSK 6
princess
HSK 6
public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
HSK 7-9
open letter
HSK 7-9
BCE (before the Common Era) / BC (before Christ)
public (e.g. school, hospital)
HSK 7-9
public place
HSK 7-9
to make known to the public (for information or to seek comments) / public notification
HSK 7-9
public relations
HSK 7-9
work-related matters / documents
HSK 7-9
company meeting
apartment building / CL:
public / for public use
HSK 7-9
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
doll / cuddly toy
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
public servant / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
metric system
charity event / public service activities
guild
official reserves / accumulated fund
HSK 7-9
metric units
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
public cemetery
HSK 7-9
public transportation / mass transit / abbr. for 公共交通
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
openly / publicly / undisguised
HSK 7-9
fair dealing
official account (on a social networking platform)
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
notarization / notarized / acknowledgement
HSK 7-9
publicly owned / communal / held in common
fair trade
public figure / famous person
public security authorities, acronym from 公安局, 檢察院|检察院 and 法院
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
public good; public welfare; public interest
HSK 7-9
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
Gregorian calendar / solar calendar
civil rights / citizenship rights
bull
centimeter (cm) / gram (g)
public phone / CL:
public transport / mass transit
official seal
civil obligation / a citizen's duty
public money
HSK 7-9
civil service / public office / government job
HSK 7-9
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
public holiday
fair competition
commune
righteousness
to formalize / formalism in art (esp. as proscribed in USSR and PRC)
Ministry of Public Security

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