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公立

gōng lì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

公立 (gōng lì) means "public (e.g. school, hospital)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 公立 means

1. public (e.g. school, hospital)

The characters in 公立

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 立lìto stand; to set up; to establish

Example sentences

• 汤姆上公立学校。
  Tom attends state school.
• 这是一所公立学校。
  This is a state school.
• 很多公立学校的食堂都很黑心。
  Many public school cafeterias are unscrupulous.
• 过去 13 年，我都是公立学校的老师。
  I've been a public school teacher for the past thirteen years.
• 当时没有任何以英语为母语的人在公立学校任教。
  Dāngshí méiyǒu rènhé yǐ Yīngyǔ wèi mǔyǔ de rén zài gōnglìxuéxiào rènjiào.
  At the time there were no native English speakers teaching in any public school.
• 荷兰的公立教育常会教授法语、德语或者西班牙语，有时也会教像拉丁语和希腊语这样的古典语言，不过古典语言的学习需要由学生主动提出。
  The public education in the Netherlands usually teaches French, German, or Spanish. Sometimes, it will also teach classical languages like Latin and Greek, although students have to voluntarily request to learn classical languages.

Words starting with 公立

• 公立学校gōng lì xué xiàopublic school

Sounds the same

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

• 功力merit; efficacy; competence
• 功利utility
• 公历Gregorian calendar; solar calendar

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