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公用

gōng yòng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

公用 (gōng yòng) means "public; for public use". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 公用 means

1. public
2. for public use

The characters in 公用

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…

Words starting with 公用

• 公用电话gōng yòng diàn huàpublic phone
• 公用交换电话网gōng yòng jiāo huàn diàn huà wǎng(Taiwan) public switched telephone network (PSTN)

Sounds the same

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

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