He went to Tokyo on business.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
公干
public business
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
public business
02
official work
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 公干 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公干 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He's gone to Nagoya on business.
My father sometimes goes to Australia on business.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 公干.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公干.
Directly before
- 澳洲公干1
- 北京公干1
- 名古屋公干1
- 东京公干1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 公干
What does 公干 mean in Chinese?
公干 (gōnggàn) means public business.
How do you pronounce 公干?
公干 is pronounced gōnggàn.
Is 公干 an HSK word?
公干 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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