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Word and Radical Components of 公车

The Chinese word 公车 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
公车 1. Simplified form of 公車

公车 ⇨ 公 + 车
Component Pinyin Meanings
gōng 1. public; communal
     (ant, zh, )
2. fair; equitable
3. to make public; to announce
4. international; universal
     公海 - international waters
     公里 - kilometer
     公尺 - meter
5. duke
6. (of animals) male
     (ant, zh, )
     公雞 - rooster
7. (honorific) old man or a man of high status
      - - Tomb of Mr. Chen Dawen (written on a tombstone)
      - Chiang Kai-shek (honorific form)
8. grandfather
9. father-in-law (husband's father)
     公婆 - parents-in-law (husband's parents)
10. (Cantonese) heads (side of a coin)
11. (Hakka) (A noun suffix)
     鼻公 - nose, H
     貓公 (miau4 gung1) - cat, H-MX
1. Variant of 車
2. Variant of 卓

公 ⇨ 八 + 厶
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. eight
2. many; numerous
3. (printing) pearl (q, the smallest size of usual type, standardized as 5 point)
4. (zh-abbrev, 八卦)
5.    to gossip (about); to stick one's nose in
6.    (Cantonese) nosey; meddling
7.   八婆 - nosey parker; meddling woman
     Ba
8. Variant of 捌
1. private
2. Variant of 私
3. Variant of 某

车 ⇨ 一 + + 十
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. one
      - yī cháng yī duǎn - one short and one long
      - yī sǐ yī shāng - one dead, one injured
      - yī gāo yī dī - one high and one low
      - yī tiān yī yè - one day and one night
      - jat1 jat6 jat1 je6 - one day and one night, C
      - yī zuǒ yī yòu - one left, one right
2. each; every
      蘋果。 (Gěi tā men yī rén yī kē píngguǒ.) - Give them an apple each.
3. single; alone
     獨自 - dúzì yī rén - a solitary person, one person
     專一 - zhuānyī - single-minded, monogamous
4. whole; entire; all: throughout
     他們 海灘 下午。 (Tāmen zài hǎitān shàng wán le yī xiàwǔ.) - They played the whole afternoon on the beach.
5. same; identical
     大小 不一 - dàxiǎo bùyī - not having the same size
     大細 不一 - daai6 sai3 bat1 jat1 - not having the same size, C
6. (classical) another; alternative
     蟋蟀 促織。 (Xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī.) - Crickets, also called cùzhī lit. another name being cùzhī.
7. (formal) certain aforementioned
     「旋律 - “xuánlǜ” yī cí zhōng de “xuán” zì - the character (m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, ) within the word m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋律
8. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb:
9.    Indicating that the action has occurred only once
10.    看 一 看 - kàn yī kàn - to have a look
11.    望 一 望 - mong6 jat1 mong6 - to have a look, C
12.    Indicating the intention to try
13.    算 一 算 - suàn yī suàn - to try to calculate it
14.    計 一 計 - gai3 jat1 gai3 - to try to calculate it, C
15. once; as soon as; upon
      OP 。 (Yī dào OP jiù kǎ.) - It slows down once I get to the opening.
      照片 立即 成為 眾人 矚目 焦點。 (Wǒ yī pāi le zhàopiàn, tā jiù lìjí chéngwèi zhòngrén zhǔmù de jiāodiǎn.) - As soon as I took a picture, she ran towards the limelight.
     一見如故 - yījiànrúgù - to hit it off
     一至於此 - yīzhìyúcǐ - How did things ever get so far?
16. (gay slang) top
     一號 - yīhào - a top
17. (Cantonese, argot, euphemistic) to die
18. =====Usage notes=====
19. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
20. one
21. each; every
22. whole; entire; all
yíeijing dialect 23. (Beijing) one
24. =====Usage notes=====
1.
shí 1. ten
2. (figurative) topmost; utmost
     十分 - very
     十全十美 - perfect