公共 (gōnggòng) means Public. Below are 12 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请爱护 公共 设施。
Qǐng àihù gōnggòng shèshī.
Please take care of public facilities.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 设施
公共 场所禁止吸烟。
Gōnggòng chǎngsuǒ jìnzhǐ xīyān.
Smoking is forbidden in public places.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 场所
我坐 公共 汽车去学校。
Wǒ zuò gōnggòng qìchē qù xuéxiào.
I take the bus to school.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 公共汽车
这里的 公共 汽车很多。
Zhèlǐ de gōnggòng qìchē hěn duō.
There are a lot of buses here.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 公共汽车
请不要损坏 公共 设施。
Qǐng bú yào sǔnhuài gōnggòng shèshī.
Please do not damage public facilities.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 损坏
早上的 公共 汽车人很多。
Zǎoshang de gōnggòng qìchē rén hěn duō.
The buses are crowded in the morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 早上
我们应该爱护 公共 设施。
Wǒmen yīnggāi àihù gōnggòng shèshī.
We should take good care of public facilities.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 爱护
没有 公共 汽车，我只好走路。
Méiyǒu gōnggòng qìchē, wǒ zhǐhǎo zǒu lù.
There was no bus, so I had to walk.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 只好
你可以选择坐地铁或者 公共 汽车。
Nǐ kěyǐ xuǎnzé zuò dìtiě huòzhě gōnggòng qìchē.
You can choose to take the subway or the bus.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 选择
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From the graded readers
那天我先坐 公共 汽车去了商场，又去了图书馆。
nà / nèi tiān wǒ xiān zuò gōnggòngqìchē qùle shāngchǎng, yòu qùle túshūguǎn.
That day I'd taken the bus to the shopping centre, then gone to the library.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
我在路口等 公共 汽车，等了十分钟，车还没有来。
wǒ zài lù kǒu děng gōnggòngqìchē, děng le / liǎo / liào shífēn zhōng, chē hái / huán méiyǒu lái.
I waited at the corner for the bus; after ten minutes it still hadn't come.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
Words that contain 公共
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Questions about 公共
How is 公共 used in a sentence?
This page shows 12 sentences using 公共 (gōnggòng, "Public"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
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The dictionary page for 公共 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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