公帑

Chinese

		just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	treasury
trad. (公帑)		公	帑
simp. #(公帑)		公	帑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōngtǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ ㄊㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ tong²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kong-thóng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōngtǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄊㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gongtǎng
    • Wade–Giles: kung¹-tʻang³
    • Yale: gūng-tǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongtaang
    • Palladius: гунтан (guntan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹ tong²
    • Yale: gūng tóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ tong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ tong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɔːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-thóng
    • Tâi-lô: kong-thóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kongtorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ tʰɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰɔŋ⁴¹/

Noun

公帑

1. public money; public funds

   浪費公帑／浪费公帑  ―  làngfèi gōngtǎng  ―  to waste public money

   • 是時，方鎮爭剝下希恩，制重錦異綾，名貢奉，有中使者，即悉公帑市歡。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     是时，方镇争剥下希恩，制重锦异绫，名贡奉，有中使者，即悉公帑市欢。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: The New Book of Tang, 1060 CE

     Shì shí, fāngzhèn zhēng bō xià xī ēn, zhì zhòng jǐn yì líng, míng gòngfèng, yǒu zhōngshǐ zhě, jí xī gōngtǎng shì huān. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• 公金
• 公款 (gōngkuǎn)