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公斤

gōng jīn

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

公斤 (gōng jīn) means "kilogram (kg)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 公斤 means

1. kilogram (kg)

The characters in 公斤

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 斤jīncatty; (mainland) weight equal to 500 g; (Taiwan) weight equal to 600 g

Example sentences

• 他80公斤。
  He weighs 80 kilos.
• 他是80公斤。
  He weighs 80 kilos.
• 我瘦了三公斤。
  I lost three kilograms.
• 他有80公斤。
  He weighs 80 kilos.
• 给我一公斤桃子。
  Gěi wǒ yī gōngjīn táozi.
  Give me a kilogram of peaches.
• 他比我重十公斤。
  He outweighs me by 10 kg.

Where 公斤 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Numbers and Measure Words (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng jīn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.