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Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

公こう用よう

kouyou

official business

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは公用こうようで大阪おおさかに行いった。

    He went to Osaka on official business.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは公用こうようでパリへ行いっている。

    He has gone to Paris on official business.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 引ひっ越こしや公用こうよう・商用しょうようの旅たび、参詣さんけいや湯治とうじなどの遊行ゆぎょう、女性じょせいの場合ばあいには婚姻こんいんや奉公ほうこうなど様々さまざまな理由りゆうでの旅たびがある。

    There were various reasons for travels, such as house moving, official or commercial trip, visiting temples and shrines, a hot-spring cure, and in cases of women, marriage and live-in domestic service.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 公用

  • 公public; princeOnコウ・クKunおおやけ
  • 用utilize; businessOnヨウKunもちいる

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