HSK 5 · Verbs

公开 gōngkāi “open” in Chinese

Traditional 公開

What 公开 means

  1. open
  2. overt
  3. public
  4. to make public
  5. to release

How to say 公开

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale公gōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level

公开 in a sentence

  1. 你很快就会习惯在公开场合讲话了。

    Nǐ hěn kuài jiù huì xíguàn zài gōngkāi chǎnghé jiǎnghuà le.

    You’ll soon get used to speaking in public.

    Sentence #775680 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 发生了那次意外以后，她就没有再公开露面了。

    Fāshēng le nà cì yìwài yǐhòu, tā jiù méiyǒu zài gōngkāi lòumiàn le.

    She hasn’t appeared in public since that accident.

    Sentence #763083 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 公开表示你对某人的爱。

    Gōngkāi biǎoshì nǐ duì mǒurén de ài.

    Show your love for someone openly.

    Sentence #336926 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 公开 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 公 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
公gōngpublic
  • 八eight · bā
  • 厶private · sī

Memory aidAn old explanation: share out 八 what is private 厶, and it becomes public.

The character 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

How to write 公开

公 4 strokes · 开 4 strokes

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公开 (gōngkāi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 公开 (gōngkāi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 公开

Words with 公

公司gōngsī · company公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle公共汽车gōnggòng qìchē · bus公斤gōngjīn · kilogram公园gōngyuán · public park办公室bàngōngshì · office公里gōnglǐ · kilometre高速公路gāosùgōnglù · motorway外公wàigōng · grandpa (mother’s father)公元gōngyuán · CE (Common Era)

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

More words: Common Verbs

改正gǎizhèng · to correct盖gài · lid干活儿gànhuór · to work搞gǎo · to do贡献gòngxiàn · to contribute构成gòuchéng · to constitute鼓舞gǔwǔ · to inspire固定gùdìng · to fix

FAQs

公开 (gōngkāi) means “open” or “overt”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gōngkāi: gōng with a 1st tone, then kāi with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 公开 is written 公開. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongkai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 公开 from the suggestions. Typing gongkai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
公开 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.