公 gōng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 八 — eight
- Made of
- 八 eight 厶 private, secret
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
公道
gōngdao
fair; just; reasonable
Characters in this word
道 dào
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 首 chief, head, leader
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这项裁决是否公道，不能只听利益相关方的一面之词。 Zhè xiàng cáijué shìfǒu gōngdao, bù néng zhǐ tīng lìyì xiāngguān fāng de yí miàn zhī cí. Whether this ruling is fair cannot be judged by listening only to one side of the interested parties.
- 卖家给的价钱很公道，我们没有讲价。 Màijiā gěi de jiàqián hěn gōngdao, wǒmen méiyǒu jiǎngjià. The seller's price was fair, so we did not haggle.
- 老师处理这件事很公道，谁也没有意见。 Lǎoshī chǔlǐ zhè jiàn shì hěn gōngdao, shéi yě méiyǒu yìjiàn. The teacher handled this matter fairly, and nobody had any complaints.