老公
lǎo​gōnglǎo​gong HSK4

husband

老公 lǎo​gōng frequency
husband noun
(colloquial) husband

我以为你是我老公。

wǒ yǐ​wéi nǐ shì wǒ lǎo​gōng.

I thought you were my husband.

old man
(literary) an old man
the state
(Mainland China slang) the public; public funds; the state (a pun on husband, implying someone who pays for everything)
老公 lǎo​gong
eunuch
(archaic or colloquial) a eunuch; also written as 公公 gōng​gong

Frequency
Movie subtitles
31.2 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
54.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)