コウ
Meanings
Noun
1. public affair; government matter; the state; the government; the public
Noun
Suffix
2. duke; prince
Suffix
3. Sir; Lord
after the name of a high-ranking person
4. familiar or derogatory suffix
after a person, animal, etc.
Pitch accent
コ
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Used in vocabulary (172 in total)
fair; impartial; just; fairness; impartiality; justice
opening to the public; making available to the public; exhibiting; unveiling; release (of a film, information, etc.); disclosure
the public; general public
probability; likelihood
fairness; openness; impartiality; Komeito (Japanese political party)
protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)
declaration; profession
Imperial Court
official business; government business; public business; public use; government use
previous ruler; previous lord; late lord; teacher; teach
public servant
public office
monkey; ape
official price
official announcement; proclamation
public commitment; public promise; campaign pledge; official vow
public character
public corporation; public housing
previous ruler; previous lord; late lord; teacher; teach
pollution; public nuisance; contamination
prince; duke
(public) park
archduke
official; formal; formula (e.g. mathematical); official (social media) account (of a company, organization, etc.)
young noblewoman; princess
young nobleman
official residence
Imperial Court
justice; fairness; impartiality
public; official
noble's consort; consort of a prince; consort of a duke; duchess; princess
open; public; official; overt
princess
imperial court; shogunate government; authorities; public affairs; official; government
elderly nobleman
public corporation
public and private matters; official and personal affairs; professional and personal lives
public road; highway; righteousness; justice; right path
maxim; self-evident truth; axiom; axiom; postulate
envoy; diplomat below the rank of ambassador (e.g. deputy chief of mission, charge d'affaires); minister (of legation)
public hearing; trial
official residence
official language
official document; archives
official proclamation; announcement; promulgation (e.g. of regulations)
three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)
duchy; dukedom; principality
notary public; notary; public notary
revolution (of a celestial body around another)
heroine; female protagonist
koan; kōan; Zen question for meditation (e.g. the sound of one hand clapping)
Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)
town hall; public hall
public opinion; unbiased criticism; unbiassed criticism
public announcement; official statement; nominal; official; official name
citizen; civics (school subject)
public funds
public debt; public bond; government securities
high-ranking officials; ministers; ladies and gentlemen; everyone
public power; governmental authority
you; your father
public expense; public funds; public money; public expenditure
official document; archives
public vessel
public interest; public benefit; public good
public service
official bulletin; communique
police; policeman; police officer
thunder
publication
on the high seas
official residence
Chuukoubunko (publisher)
postulate; axiom; postulate (in Euclidean geometry)
buddy; pal; friend
forgery of an official document; falsification of public records
nobles and soldiers; imperial court
authorized absence; permission of absence from class(es)
Ecumenical Council
royalty and nobility; noble; aristocrat
public records office; archives
common ratio; geometric ratio
American; Yankee; Yank
public education (including private schools under the Japanese national education system); state education
public ownership; public domain
public opinion; public debate; just view; fair argument; (arch.) conference at the imperial or shogunal court
civil rights; franchise; citizenship
public meeting
public morality; social morals; civic virtues
public knowledge; common knowledge
Italian person
completely out in the open; very publicly; in broad daylight
public enemy
(Roman) Catholicism
public ceremonies; public affairs
public law
official seal
common factor; common divisor
public election; election by popular vote
common difference; tolerance (in engineering, manufacturing, etc.); allowance; allowable error
authentication; notarization; notarisation
female delinquent
extension lectures
government business
political party
national examinations
civil rights
public institution
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
duke, marquis, count, viscount and baron (five ranks of nobility in Japan; 1869-1947)
common multiple
justice; equity
uncultured but well-intentioned person; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs
princes and marquises; great feudal lords
public life
public good; public profit
public life; public career
axiomatic system
international airspace; international space
(Roman) Catholic Church
government office
popular opinion; popular reputation; impartial criticism
land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
Yu Gong (main character in the 4th century BC Chinese fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains"); Yúgōng; Yukong
public order; public policy
offices of a public or governmental organization (organisation)
speaking at a public hearing
public imposts; taxes
common denominator
Freedom of Information Act; FOIA
(coalition of) the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito
public assistance (i.e. assistance provided by a public body)
official language
axiomatic theory
perfect fairness
Nazi; kraut; German
public bonds
judicial decision
public funeral
ceiling or fixed price
public record
public university
government-provided housing for civil servants (esp. in Hokkaidō); public housing
cadastral map
public tax
public issue
public corporation; juridical person
national life; civic life
apartment house built by the Japan Housing Corporation
coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito
public corporation
Public Corporation and National Enterprise Labor Relations Commission
Public Corporations and Government Enterprises Labor Relations Act
authority of prosecution; authority to indict
public land; government land
public insurance
official letter (esp. in internal company corresp.); formal letter
General Epistles (James, Peter, Jude, John); Catholic Epistles; General Letters
General Epistles (James, Peter, Jude, John); Catholic Epistles; General Letters
1992 Property Disclosure Act; law requiring members of parliament to disclose their assets
public safety commission
common factor
Japan Fair Trade Commission (abbr)
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
master; main character; protagonist