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公式

gōng shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

公式 (gōng shì) means "formula". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 公式 means

1. formula

The characters in 公式

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 式shìtype; form; pattern

Example sentences

• 你知道这些公式是从哪里来的吗？
  Nǐ zhīdào zhèxiē gōngshì shì cóng nǎlǐ lái de ma?
  Do you know where these equations come from?
• 此公式对所有实部大于零的复数 z 均成立。
  This formula is valid for all complex numbers z with a real part greater than zero.
• 海龙公式说明了三角形的面积如何表示为其边长的函数。
  Heron's Formula shows how the area of a triangle can be expressed as a function of its side lengths.

Words starting with 公式

• 公式化gōng shì huàto formalize; formalism in art (esp. as proscribed in USSR and PRC)

Words containing 公式

• 非公式fēi gōng shìunofficial; informal
• 数学公式shù xué gōng shìformula
• 递推公式dì tuī gōng shìrecurrence formula

Sounds the same

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

• 攻势(military) offensive
• 公事work-related matters; documents
• 公示to make known to the public (for information or to seek comments); public notification
• 工事defensive structure; military fortifications; (Taiwan) construction works
• 公室office (room); ruling families during Spring and Autumn period

Where 公式 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gēng–gōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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