府

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 腐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 345, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9283
• Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 877, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5E9C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		府

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 府
Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (付) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鉜	*bu
跗	*po, *bos
柎	*po
腑	*poʔ
俯	*poʔ
府	*poʔ
付	*pos
咐	*pos
怤	*pʰo
泭	*pʰo, *bo
姇	*pʰo
紨	*pʰo
拊	*pʰoʔ
弣	*pʰoʔ
符	*bo
苻	*bo
坿	*bo, *bos
腐	*boʔ
附	*bos
駙	*bos
鮒	*bos
袝	*bos
蚹	*bos
胕	*bos

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 府

1. (historical) government repository
2. warehouse; storehouse; stores
3. (historical) organs of state power
4. (historical) official residence
5. (literary, honorific) your residence
6. (historical) an East Asian administrative division of various status over the centuries, usually translated as prefecture or commandery
7. prefectural capital
8. prefect

Synonyms

• (warehouse): 倉／仓 (cāng)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

府

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: くら (kura, 府); みやこ (miyako, 府)

Compounds

• 府君
• 府庫
• 府寺
• 府治
• 府第
• 府中
• 政府
• 幕(ばく)府(ふ) (bakufu)

Noun

府(ふ) • (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

(deprecated template usage) 府 (phủ)

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