府

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府 U+5E9C, 府
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E9C
← 庛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庝 →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

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

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

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.

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
Baxter pjuX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fu2
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. * 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
    1. province of Thailand
  7. prefectural capital
  8. prefect

Synonyms

  • (warehouse): 倉／仓 (cāng)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

府

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. urban prefecture

Readings

Compounds

Noun

府(ふ) • (fu) 

  1. The prefectural governments of Osaka and Kyoto.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 府 (MC pjuX).

Hanja

府 (eumhun 곳집 부 (gotjip bu))
府 (eumhun 관청 부 (gwancheong bu))

  1. Hanja form? of 부 (“warehouse”).
  2. Hanja form? of 부 (“government office”).

Vietnamese

Han character

府: Hán Nôm readings: phủ

  1. (historical) a Chinese prefecture
    An Nam Đô hộ phủ ― Annam Prefecture
  2. (historical) the residence of a nobleman or government official
    phủ Chúa Trịnh ― the Trịnh Lord's Palace
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