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公主

gōng zhǔ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

公主 (gōng zhǔ) means "princess". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 公主 means

1. princess

The characters in 公主

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 主zhǔowner; master; host

Example sentences

• 公主之前在哪里？
  Where was the princess?
• 从前有个美丽的公主。
  Cóngqián yǒu ge měilì de gōngzhǔ.
  Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess.
• 她梦见她是一个公主。
  Tā mèngjiàn tā shì yī gè gōngzhǔ.
  She dreamed that she was a princess.
• 公主向皇帝请求饶恕。
  Gōngzhǔ xiàng huángdì qǐngqiú ráoshù.
  The princess begged forgiveness from the emperor.
• 一等奖是公主的香吻。
  The grand prize is a kiss from the princess.
• 她像白雪公主一样漂亮。
  Tā xiàng Báixuě Gōngzhǔ yīyàng piàoliang.
  She is as beautiful as Snow White.

Words starting with 公主

• 公主车gōng zhǔ chēladies bicycle
• 公主病gōng zhǔ bìng(neologism c. 1997) (coll.) self-entitlement
• 公主抱gōng zhǔ bàoto carry sb the way grooms carry brides across the threshold
• 公主岭市Gōng zhǔ lǐng ShìGongzhuling, a county-level city in Siping City 四平市
• 公主岭Gōng zhǔ lǐngsee 公主岭市

Words containing 公主

• 白雪公主Bái xuě Gōng zhǔSnow White
• 小公主xiǎo gōng zhǔlit. little princess; fig. spoiled girl; female version of 小皇帝
• 太平公主Tài píng gōng zhǔPrincess Taiping (c. 665-713), Tang Dynasty princess, politically powerful and known for…
• 长乐公主Cháng lè Gōng zhǔPrincess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern dynasties 西魏
• 花花公主huā huā gōng zhǔplaygirl
• 六公主Liù gōng zhǔnickname for CCTV-6 (China Movie Channel)

Sounds the same

Read gōng zhǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宫主imperial empress; milady

Where 公主 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms B (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng zhǔ correctly.
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