公公 (gōng gong) — husband's father (father-in-law); (dialectal) m…

Definition

Standard sense is 'husband's father' — pair it with 婆婆 'husband's mother'. In some dialects (e.g. Sichuanese) it also means 'maternal grandfather'.

noun

husband's father (father-in-law)(dialectal) maternal grandfathergrandpa

Measure word · 个

公公。
Wǒ pó po hé gōng gong duì wǒ dōu hěn hǎo.
My mother-in-law and father-in-law are both very kind to me.
，公公。
Zài sì chuān huà lǐ, gōng gong jiù shì wài gōng de yì si.
In Sichuan dialect, 'gōng gong' means maternal grandfather.
公公，。
Xiǎo shí hou wǒ jīng cháng qù xiāng xia kàn gōng gong, tā zǒng gěi wǒ jiǎng gù shi.
When I was little, I often went to the countryside to see grandpa, and he always told me stories.

Reduplicated word

构词法gòucífǎ

重叠chóngdiéReduplication

A syllable said twice — for affection, for softness, or simply because that is how the word is said.

公gōngfather-in-law/male elder

公 denotes a male elder or father-in-law; the doubled 公公 gives the familiar kinship term.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

One theory sees 公 as a picture of a wide-mouthed, round-bottomed jar.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

One theory sees 公 as a picture of a wide-mouthed, round-bottomed jar.

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