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公民

gōng mín

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

公民 (gōng mín) means "citizen". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 公民 means

1. citizen

The characters in 公民

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Example sentences

• 我是世界公民。
  I'm a citizen of the world.
• 我是美国的公民。
  Wǒ shì Měiguó de gōngmín.
  I am an American citizen.
• 他是中国的公民。
  He's a citizen of China.
• Mario是义大利的公民 。
  Mario is an Italian citizen.
• 她是一个英国公民，但她是在法国出生的。
  Tā shì yī gè Yīngguó gōngmín, dàn tā shì zài Fǎguó chūshēng de.
  She is a British citizen but her native land is France.
• 民主主义者是屈服于大部分人的自由公民。
  Mínzhǔzhǔyìzhě shì qūfú yú dàbùfen rén de zìyóu gōngmín.
  A democrat is a free citizen who yields to the will of the majority.

Words starting with 公民

• 公民权gōng mín quáncivil rights; citizenship rights
• 公民权利gōng mín quán lìcivil rights
• 公民表决gōng mín biǎo juéreferendum; decided by public vote
• 公民社会gōng mín shè huìcivil society
• 公民义务gōng mín yì wùcivil obligation; a citizen's duty
• 公民投票gōng mín tóu piàoplebiscite; referendum
• 公民权利和政治权利国际公约gōng mín quán lì hé zhèng zhì quán lì guó jì gōng yuēInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Words containing 公民

• 二等公民èr děng gōng mínsecond-class citizen

Where 公民 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng mín correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.