共 (gòng) means Altogether (share - common). Below are 24 of the 42 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
夏令营一 共 七天。
Xiàlìngyíng yígòng qī tiān.
The summer camp lasts seven days in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 夏令营
费用 共 计八千元。
Fèiyòng gòngjì bāqiān yuán.
The costs come to eight thousand yuan in total.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 共计
一 共 是一百二十元。
Yígòng shì yìbǎi èrshí yuán.
That comes to a hundred and twenty yuan.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 元
这本书一 共 有十节。
Zhè běn shū yígòng yǒu shí jié.
This book has ten sections in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 节
这本书一 共 三百页。
Zhè běn shū yígòng sānbǎi yè.
This book has three hundred pages in total.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 页
我们班总 共 三十人。
Wǒmen bān zǒnggòng sānshí rén.
There are thirty people in our class in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 总共
这些书总 共 多少钱？
Zhèxiē shū zǒnggòng duōshao qián?
How much are these books altogether?
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 总共
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
地球是我们 共 同的家。
Dìqiú shì wǒmen gòngtóng de jiā.
The Earth is our shared home.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 地球
这本词典一 共 有三册。
Zhè běn cídiǎn yígòng yǒu sān cè.
This dictionary comes in three volumes.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 册
这是人类的 共 同问题。
Zhè shì rénlèi de gòngtóng wèntí.
This is a problem for all humanity.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 人类
考试一 共 有四个科目。
Kǎoshì yígòng yǒu sì ge kēmù.
The exam has four subjects in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 科目
Reading these is one thing; producing 共 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
一 共 装了二十六个箱子。
yīgòng zhuāngle èrshíliù gè xiāngzi.
Twenty-six boxes in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
面试我的一 共 有两个人。
miàn shì wǒ de(possessive) yīgòng yǒu liǎng gèrén.
Two people interviewed me.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
那天下午，我一 共 摔了十一次。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, wǒ yīgòng shuāi le / liǎo / liào shíyī cì.
That afternoon I fell eleven times in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
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
From the grammar library
一 共 二十二个人。
Yígòng èrshí'èr ge rén.
Twenty-two people in total.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
共 appears in 42 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 共
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 共
How is 共 used in a sentence?
This page shows 42 sentences using 共 (gòng, "Altogether (share - common)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 共 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 共 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 共?
The dictionary page for 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.
Keep going
Read the full entry for 共, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.
Another word
Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.