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公安

gōng ān

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

公安 (gōng ān) means "(Ministry of) Public Security; public safety; public security". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 公安 means

1. (Ministry of) Public Security
2. public safety
3. public security

Other readings

公安 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Gōng ānsee {公安县|Gōng ān Xiàn}

The characters in 公安

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 安ān(bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health

Example sentences

• 公安人员把小偷抓住了。
  The policeman arrested the thief.

Words starting with 公安

• 公安局gōng ān júpublic security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
• 公安部Gōng ān bùMinistry of Public Security
• 公安机关gōng ān jī guānpublic security bureau
• 公安官员gōng ān guān yuánpublic safety officials
• 公安县Gōng ān XiànGong'an, a county in Jingzhou City 荆州市

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng ān correctly.
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