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公

4 strokes
Radical:
eight 八
Parts:
ハ 厶
public, prince, official, governmental
Kun:
おおやけ
On:
コウ、 ク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
118 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 公 【コウ】 public affair, government matter, the state, the government, the public, duke, prince, Sir, Lord, familiar or derogatory suffix
  • 公安 【コウアン】 public safety, public welfare
  • 大公 【タイコウ】 archduke
  • 乃公 【ダイコウ】 I, me
  • 公家 【クゲ】 court noble, nobility, kuge, Imperial Court
  • 公廨 【クガイ】 government office
  • 夙 【シュク】 outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

Kun reading compounds

  • 公 【おおやけ】 official, governmental, formal, public (use, matter, forum, etc.), common, being public knowledge, being out in the open, exposure to public view
  • 公所 【おおやけどころ】 imperial court, government office, imperial land, government land

Readings

Japanese names:
あきら、 き、 きみ、 きん、 たか、 ただし、 とも、 ひろ、 まさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gong1
Korean:
gong

Spanish

  • público
  • imparcial
  • oficial

Portuguese

  • público
  • príncipe
  • oficial
  • governamental

French

  • public
  • prince
  • officiel
  • gouvernemental
210 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
126 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
277 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
122 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
579 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
219 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
341 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
156 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
126 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
126 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
323 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
152 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2468 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1249 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1715 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
792 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1452 Morohashi
1974 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
372 New Nelson (John Haig)
784 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
847 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
212 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
92 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2071 2001 Kanji
2o2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-2 SKIP code
8073.0 Four corner code
8073.2 Four corner code
1-24-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
516c Unicode hex code

吏

6 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening 口
Parts:
一 丶 ノ 口
officer, an official
On:
リ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 吏 【リ】 government official, public official
  • 吏員 【リイン】 official
  • 官吏 【カンリ】 government official, public servant, civil servant
  • 刑吏 【ケイリ】 executioner

Readings

Japanese names:
さと、 し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • oficial del gobierno
  • funcionario

Portuguese

  • oficial
  • um oficial

French

  • fonctionnaire
  • préposé
1894 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1911 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
183 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1684 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1126 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
329 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1007 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1044 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1883 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
321 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4351 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2201 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2963 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
700 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3299 Morohashi
3536 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
706 New Nelson (John Haig)
693 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
748 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1067 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1566 2001 Kanji
0a6.22 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
5004.6 Four corner code
5000.6 Four corner code
1-45-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
540f Unicode hex code