# 公 — Public

Frequency rank 218 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 読 (Read), less common than 七 (Seven).

- On’yomi: こう、く
- Kun’yomi: おおやけ
- Radical: 八 Eight (Kangxi 12)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 4

On the harbour wall the acrobat drops into the splits over the hunched soldier's bowl, legs peeling into a wide V that shows the square what he was hiding.

In words:

- 公園 こうえん — park
- 公 おおやけ — official;public;formal;open;governmental
- 公平 こうへい — fairness,impartial,justice

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