CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

公子

gōngzǐ

son of an official

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

son of an official

son of nobility

your son (honorific)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 公子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公子 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

叶公子名叫高，十分喜爱龙，衣带钩上雕着龙，酒器上刻着龙，居室内的花纹图案也全都画着龙。天上的真龙听说这件事，便降临到人间，头探进窗户里，尾巴拖在厅堂中。叶公看见真龙，转身惊慌逃开，吓得魂飞魄散，脸色大变。由此可见，叶公并不是真的喜爱龙，他喜爱的只是那些像龙却并非真龙的东西。yè gōng zi míng jiào gāo， shí fēn xǐ ài lóng， yī dài gōu shàng diāo zhe lóng， jiǔ qì shàng kè zhe lóng， jū shì nèi de huā wén tú àn yě quán dōu huà zhe lóng。 tiān shàng de zhēn lóng tīng shuō zhè jiàn shì， biàn jiàng lín dào rén jiān， tóu tàn jìn chuāng hù lǐ， wěi ba tuō zài tīng táng zhōng。 yè gōng kàn jiàn zhēn lóng， zhuǎn shēn jīng huāng táo kāi， xià dé hún fēi pò sàn， liǎn sè dà biàn。 yóu cǐ kě jiàn， yè gōng bìng bú shì zhēn de xǐ ài lóng， tā xǐ ài de zhǐ shì nà xiē xiàng lóng què bìng fēi zhēn lóng de dōng xī。

Lord Ye, whose given name was Gao, was extremely fond of dragons. Dragons were carved on his belt hooks and wine vessels, and all the patterns in his dwelling were painted with dragons. When the real dragon in heaven heard of this, it descended to the mortal world. It poked its head through the window and trailed its tail across the hall. At the sight of the creature, Lord Ye spun around and fled in terror. He was utterly panic-stricken and turned pale with fright. This shows that Lord Ye did not truly love dragons. What he adored was merely things that looked like dragons, not real ones.

谨为另公子婚事献上由衷祝福。jǐn wèi lìng gōng zi hūn shì xiàn shàng yóu zhōng zhù fú。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 公子.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公子.

Directly before

另公子1
叶公子1

Directly after

公子婚事1
公子名叫1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 公子

What does 公子 mean in Chinese?

公子 (gōngzǐ) means son of an official.

How do you pronounce 公子?

公子 is pronounced gōngzǐ.

Is 公子 an HSK word?

公子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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