Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
eight
Parts:
public, prince, official, governmental
Kun:
おおやけ
On:
コウ
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

10 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
tariff, crop tax, borrowing
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2089 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 租 【ソ】 rice tax (ritsuryō system), rice levy, tax on rice fields, annual tribute, annual tax
  • 租税 【ソゼイ】 taxes, taxation
  • 公租 【コウソ】 public tax
  • 貢租 【コウソ】 annual tax, tribute

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zu1
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • tarifa
  • tributo
  • impuestos

Portuguese

  • tarifa
  • coletar impostos
  • pedir emprestado

French

  • droits
  • taxe
  • impôt
  • emprunt
1506 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1481 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3279 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1574 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1584 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1116 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1083 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1133 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1893 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1434 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1492 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
789 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1076 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1794 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24988 Morohashi
1161 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4138 New Nelson (John Haig)
1778 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1916 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1375 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2273 2001 Kanji
5d5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-5 SKIP code
2791.0 Four corner code
1-33-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
79df Unicode hex code