公公
 gōng gong
 Pinyin
Definition
公公
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              - husband's father
 - grandpa
 - eunuch
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 princess
 
- 1 public transportation
 - 2 mass transit
 - 3 abbr. for 公共交通[gōng gòng jiāo tōng]
 
Idioms (20)
假公济私
  - 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
 
公之于世
  - 1 to announce to the world (idiom)
 - 2 to make public
 - 3 to let everyone know
 
公之于众
  - 1 to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely
 - 2 to let the world know
 
公事公办
  - 1 to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom)
 
公而忘私
  - 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
 - 2 selfless
 
Sample Sentences
A(媒婆)B(新娘)C(公公)D(婆婆)
  A (matchmaker) B (bride) C (father in law) D (mother in law)
我公公有糖尿病。
  My father in law has diabetes.
我想你们平时一直照顾我们,除夕就我们来准备吧。这样,你们和公公婆婆都来我们家吃饭,我们一家人多热闹。
  I think that you all are always taking care of us. On New Year's Eve, we want to take care of things. This way, you and the in-laws can come to our house to eat. With our family together it will be more lively.
当面叫的时候,要叫爸妈。然后介绍的时候,你可以说这是我的婆婆,这是我的公公。
  If you're calling them directly, you can say mom and dad. If you're introducing them, you can say: "this is my husband's mother, this is my husband's father."
公公就是老公的爸爸。
  "Gong gong" is your husband's father.
圣诞老公公
  Santa.
哈,你也这么觉得啊?我们背地里都叫他王公公!
  Hah!  You feel this way too?  We all call him Wang Gonggong behind his back!
小顺子就留在这儿吧,本宫亲自来教他。将来他可要派大用场啊!来人啊,赏楚公公白银五百两。
  Stay here, Xiao Shunzi. I'll train him myself. He'll be put to great use in the future! Someone come reward Grandpa Chu with five hundred taels of silver [1 tael = 0.377 kg--Ed.] !
以后就叫我楚公公。我现在带你进紫禁城,就是皇上住的地方,知道吗?
  From now on, you will call me Grandpa Chu. Now, I'm going to take you into the Forbidden City. That's where the Emperor lives. Do you know that?
楚公公,时辰到了。
  Grandpa Chu, the time has come.