Chinese symbol for “communal”
公共
gōng gòng
public; common; communal
The closest CC-CEDICT match for communal is 公共 (gōng gòng), defined as: public; common; communal.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “communal”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 公有 | gōng yǒu | publicly owned; communal |
| 共用 | gòng yòng | to share the use of; to have joint use of; communal (bathroom); shared (antenna) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 公共.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 公民 | gōng mín | citizen |
| 公布 (公佈) | gōng bù | variant of 公布 (gōng bù) |
| 公里 | gōng lǐ | kilometer |
| 共同 | gòng tóng | common; joint |
| 共有 | gòng yǒu | in total there are ...; to own jointly |
| 共和国 (共和國) | gòng hé guó | republic |
See also: Japanese symbol for “communal”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.