府

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *poʔ): semantic 广 ‎(“building”) + phonetic 付 ‎(OC *pos) – a type of building.

Han character

府 (radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈人木戈 (IODI), four-corner 0024₀, composition ⿸广付)

1. warehouse, storehouse, stores
2. government
3. an East Asian administrative division of various status over the centuries, usually translated as prefecture or commandery
4. prefectural capital
5. prefect

Synonyms

• 倉

Derived characters

• 腐

References

• KangXi: page 345, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9283
• Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 877, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5E9C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		府

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: fu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hu²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hú
    • IPA ^(key): /hu⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: /pɨo^X/▼

Rime
Character	府
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方矩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/pioX/
Shao Rongfen	/pioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puə̆X/
Li Rong	/pioX/
Wang Li	/pĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*p(r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*poʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	府
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)oʔ/
English	repository
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	府
Reading #	1/1
No.	3511
Phonetic component	付
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甫
Old Chinese	/*poʔ/

Definitions

府

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Compounds

• 府城
• 府绸
• 府邸
• 府第
• 府上
• 府试

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Japanese

Kanji

府

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ふ (fu)
• Kun: やくしょ (yakusho), みやこ (miyako), くら (kura)

Compounds

• 府君
• 府庫
• 府寺
• 府治
• 府第
• 府中
• 政府
• 幕府 (bakufu)

Noun

府 ‎(hiragana ふ, romaji fu)

1. The prefectural governments of Osaka and Kyoto.

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Korean

Hanja

府 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

府 (phủ)

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