公司
gōng sī
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A company: a business that people work for; also its office as a workplace. 在公司 is 'at the office', 开公司 'to start a company'. The measure word is 家: 一家公司 'a company'.
Công ty, hãng; cũng chỉ chỗ làm, văn phòng của công ty. 在公司 là “ở công ty, ở chỗ làm”, 开公司 là “mở công ty”. Lượng từ là 家: 一家公司 (một công ty).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “công ti” (cong-ti). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “公司” mean?
A company: a business that people work for; also its office as a workplace. 在公司 is 'at the office', 开公司 'to start a company'. The measure word is 家: 一家公司 'a company'. Literally: public management
Is “公司” formal or informal?
公司 is generally neutral.