The driver went straight through the red light in full view of everyone.
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How 公然 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.
公gōngpublic
八eight · bā
厶private · sī
Memory aidAn old explanation: share out 八 what is private 厶, and it becomes public.
然ráncorrect
肰dog meat · ránSound part
灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part
灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 肰 (rán) hints at the sound. Compare it with rán.
Memory aidFire 灬 under meat 肰. Its first meaning was “to burn”, now written 燃 (rán).
How to write 公然
公 4 strokes · 然 12 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 公然 (gōngrán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
公然 (gōngrán) means “openly” or “brazenly”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gōngrán: gōng with a 1st tone, then rán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 公然 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongran with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 公然 from the suggestions. Typing gongran into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
公然 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
公gōng1st tone, high and level
然rán2nd tone, rising
