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公公
Mandarin · pinyin gōng gong
Meanings
- husband's father; father-in-law
- grandpa; grandad
- (old) form of address for a eunuch
Characters in this entry
- 公
- gōng · fair, equitable; public; duke
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Mandarin tones
1–5 · gong1 gong5
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 7 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gung4 gung1
Cantonese word readings for 公公. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
noun
- (Mandarin, Gan, Jin, Wu) father-in-law (husband's father)
- (archaic, honorific) term of address for eunuchs
- (archaic) Grand Preceptor
noun
- (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, dialectal Gan, dialectal Wu) maternal grandfather
- (dialectal Mandarin, Gan, dialectal Hakka, Huizhou, Handan Jin, Northern Min, Xiang, dialectal Wu) paternal grandfather
- (Ruijin Hakka) great-uncle (paternal grandfather's elder brother)
- (honorific, usually following a surname) old man; elderly man
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