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公

Level II of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 218 / 2,608

Public

On’yomi
こう、く
Kun’yomi
おおやけ
Radical
八 Eight (Kangxi 12)
School grade
2
Strokes
4

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 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 parkN5
公 おおやけ official;public;formal;open;governmentalN1
公平 こうへい fairness,impartial,justiceN3

公 is rank 218 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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