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Chinese symbol for “commune”

公社
gōng shè
commune

The closest CC-CEDICT match for commune is 公社 (gōng shè), defined as: commune.

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Characters and stroke order

公 gōng
fair, equitable; public; duke
radical 12 ⼋ · 4 strokes
社 shè
group, organization, society; a god of the soil
radical 113 ⽰ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “commune”

WordPinyinMeaning
密谈 (密談)mì táncommune; private discussion

Related words

Other words that share a character with 公社.

WordPinyinMeaning
公司gōng sīcompany; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā)
公开 (公開)gōng kāiopen; overt; public; to make public; to release
公民gōng míncitizen
公布 (公佈)gōng bùvariant of 公布 (gōng bù)
公里gōng lǐkilometer
社会 (社會)shè huìsociety
社区 (社區)shè qūcommunity; neighborhood
社会主义 (社會主義)shè huì zhǔ yìsocialism

See also: Japanese symbol for “commune”.

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.