公然

Chinese

		just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	so; thus; like this so; thus; like this; ‑ly; correct; right
trad. (公然)		公	然
simp. ^#(公然)		公	然

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gōngrán

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥㄖㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ jin⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kong-liân / kong-jiân

(Teochew, Peng'im): gong¹ riang⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kon-zoe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gōngrán
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥㄖㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gongrán
  - Wade–Giles: kung¹-jan²
  - Yale: gūng-rán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongran
  - Palladius: гунжань (gunžanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐän³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gung¹ jin⁴
  - Yale: gūng yìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ jin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ yin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ jiːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-liân
  - Tâi-lô: kong-liân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: konglieen
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² liɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ liɛn²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-jiân
  - Tâi-lô: kong-jiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kongjieen
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ziɛn²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡ziɛn¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: gong¹ riang⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kong jiâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /koŋ³³⁻²³ d͡ziaŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹kon-zoe
  - MiniDict: kon^平 zoe
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kon-zoe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /koŋ⁵⁵ zø²¹/

Adverb

公然

openly; overtly; out in public; publicly; undisguised

Synonyms

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光天化日 (guāngtiānhuàrì)
公開 / 公开 (gōngkāi)
堂而皇之 (táng'érhuángzhī)
大搖大擺 / 大摇大摆 (dàyáodàbǎi)
招搖過市 / 招摇过市 (zhāoyáoguòshì)
明火執仗 / 明火执仗
明目張膽 / 明目张胆 (míngmùzhāngdǎn)
眾目睽睽 / 众目睽睽 (zhòngmùkuíkuí)

Related terms

公開／公开 (gōngkāi)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
公	然
こう Grade: 2	ぜん Grade: 4
kan'on

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こーぜん [kòózéń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ko̞ːzẽ̞ɴ]

Adjective

公(こう)然(ぜん) • (kōzen) ^{←こうぜん (kouzen)^?}^†-tari (adnominal 公(こう)然(ぜん)とした (kōzen to shita) or 公(こう)然(ぜん)たる (kōzen taru), adverbial 公(こう)然(ぜん)と (kōzen to) or 公(こう)然(ぜん)として (kōzen to shite))

openly; overtly; out in public; publicly; undisguised
公然(こうぜん)の秘密(ひみつ)
kōzen no himitsu
open secret

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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