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公道 gōngdào

公道 gōngdào Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 5 English Translations of the word 公道 gōngdào .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gōngdào | gong1 dao4
English translation
justice
fairness
public highway
fair
equitable

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About 公道 gōngdào

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Traditional form

公道 gōngdào

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Etymology of 公道 gōngdào

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gōng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Originally a pictograph of a vessel for holding liquid. The original meaning is now written as wèng , with the (pottery) component added at the bottom. The current meaning "public" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

八厶

Number of Strokes

4
dào

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. chuò represents the meaning and shǒu represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

shǒu

Semantic compound

chuò

Positional decomposition

辶首

Number of Strokes

12

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Example sentences using 公道 gōngdào

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证券 zhèng quàn 请求 qǐngqiú gěi 一切 yīqiè chí rén 公道 gōngdào yòu 同等 tóng děng de dāi féng .

Securities laws require companies to treat all shareholders reasonably and equally.

gāi 商店 shāngdiàn yīn 买卖 mǎi mài 公道 gōngdào ér 享有 xiǎng yǒu Gāo de 声誉 shēngyù .

This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.

de tǎn de 料子 liào zi shì 价格公道低廉 dī lián de de 面料 miàn liào

Carpeting is a reasonably cheap floor-covering.

公道 gōngdào Decomposition

See the 7 Chinese characters that make up 公道 gōngdào and their own compounds.

公道 gōngdào Compounds

See all 48 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 公道 gōngdào in their composition.

  • gōng
    • Sōng
    • wēng
      • wēng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wēng , , wēng , , , , ,
    • gǔn
    • sòng , sòng , wèng , gōng , sōng , zhōng , zhōng , qiān , , , , , , , , , sòng , sòng
  • dào
    • ,
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