共
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common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 八 +4
- Structure
- Top–middle–bottom 上中下
- Traditional
- 共
- Common rank
- #379
- Unicode
- U+5171
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Formation & memory
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Words with 共
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安道尔共和国 | Republic of Andorra | |
| 克罗地亚共和国 | Republic of Croatia | |
| 基里巴斯共和国 | Kiribati | |
| 中华人民共和国 | People's Republic of China | |
| 共行车道 | carpool lane | |
| 公共道德 | public morality; social ethics | |
| 国共合作 | United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, … | |
| 多明尼加共和国 | (Tw) Dominican Republic | |
| 小公共 | mini bus (used for public transportation) | |
| 公共事业 | public utility; state-run enterprise; public foundation or enterprise, often charitable | |
| 共通性 | commonality; universality | |
| 公共交通 | public transport; mass transit | |
| 多米尼加共和国 | Dominican Republic | |
| 中非共和国 | Central African Republic | |
| 阿拉伯共同市场 | Arab Common Market | |
| 爱尔兰共和国 | Republic of Ireland | |
| 中国共产主义青年团 | Communist Youth League of China; China Youth League | |
| 共青城市 | Gongqingcheng, a county-level city in Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 公共行政 | public administration | |
| 共同基金 | mutual fund |
Sound family
These characters use 共 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共 sound part | all, total; together; to share | |
| 拱 | to salute, to bow; arched; arch | |
| 恭 | polite, respectful, reverent | |
| 粪 | manure, dung; shit, excrement | |
| 哄 | to coax; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive; tumult, uproar | |
| 烘 | to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire | |
| 珙 | precious stone; a county in Sichuan | |
| 蕻 | budding, flourishing | |
| 龚 | to give, to present; reverential | |
| 栱 | stake, post; pillar; peg | |
| 輂 | horse-drawn carriage | |
| 衖 | alley, lane |