fǔ
government
Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 付 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fǔ
prefecture; prefect; government; seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
Most common words with 府
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
government | ||
city hall | ||
mansion | ||
capital city of an autonomous region | ||
county administration |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p(r)oʔ | pjuX | fǔ | repository |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 27.8232% of movies
1054th most common character in movies
417th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5E9C |
Shuowen | “府,文書藏也。从广,付聲。” |
Sources
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