府

府	U+5E9C, 府 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E9C

Translingual

Stroke order

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

俯捬腑椨焤腐

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

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
Gan (Wiktionary): fu³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fú

(Meixian, Guangdong): fu³
Northern Min (KCR): hǔ
Eastern Min (BUC): hū
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hú

(Teochew, Peng'im): hu²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵fu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǔ
  - Wade–Giles: fu³
  - Yale: fǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: fu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fú
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fu³
  - Sinological IPA: /fu³¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fu³
  - Sinological IPA: /fu³¹/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hǔ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hū
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
  - Tâi-lô: hú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hu²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hú
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵fu
  - MiniDict: fu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²fu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fu³⁴/

Middle Chinese: pjuX

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	/pɨo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pio^X/
Shao Rongfen	/pio^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puə̆^X/
Li Rong	/pio^X/
Wang Li	/pĭu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu²

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	‹ pju^X ›
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

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

Synonyms

(warehouse): 倉／仓 (cāng)

Compounds

References

“府”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

府

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

urban prefecture

Readings

Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
Kun: くら (kura, 府)、みやこ (miyako, 府)、つかさ (tsukasa, 府)

Compounds

Noun

府(ふ) • (fu)

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))

hanja form^? of 부 (“warehouse”)
hanja form^? of 부 (“government office”)

Vietnamese

Han character

府: Hán Nôm readings: phủ

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