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府

府

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 府

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 府
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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, OC *poʔ) : semantic 广 ‎(“building”) + phonetic 付 ‎(OC *pos) – a type of building.

Pronunciation

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
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

  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

Japanese

Kanji

府

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

府 ‎(hiragana ふ, romaji fu)

  1. The prefectural governments of Osaka and Kyoto.

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

府 (phủ)

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