府
seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
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Dict coverage rank #932 U+5E9C
How 府 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
广 (semantic, “wide”) + 付 (phonetic, fù)
How to remember it
government office · Heisig RSH #826
cave + 付 pay
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 付
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 付 (fù) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 付 sound component | fù | give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust |
| 附 | fù | nearby; to adhere to, to attach; to rely on |
| 符 | fú | amulet, charm; mark, tag; to correspond to |
| 腐 | fǔ | to spoil, to rot, to decay; rotten |
| 咐 | fù | to instruct; to order |
| 拊 | fǔ | to pat, to slap, to tap; the handle of a vessel |
| 鲋 | fù | carp; Carassicus auratus |
| 苻 | fú | a kind of herb; Angelica anomala |
| 跗 | fū | arch, instep |
| 驸 | fù | extra horse; imperial son-in-law |
Words containing 府
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天府之国 | tiān fǔ zhī guó | (idiom) land of plenty (usu. used in reference to Sichuan) |
| 无政府主义 | wú zhèng fǔ zhǔ yì | anarchism |
| 政府大学院 | Zhèng fǔ Dà xué yuàn | the name of Academia Sinica 中央研究院[Zhong1 yang1 Yan2 jiu1 yuan4] when it was founded |
| 打道回府 | dǎ dào huí fǔ | to go home (in a ceremonial procession); to return home |
| 人民政府 | rén mín zhèng fǔ | people's government |
| 国民政府 | Guó mín Zhèng fǔ | Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925–1948) |
| 政府机关 | zhèng fǔ jī guān | government (viewed as an organization); institutions of government; government office |
| 台南府 | Tái nán Fǔ | Tainan Prefecture, a prefecture of Taiwan under Qing rule |
| 胸无城府 | xiōng wú chéng fǔ | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything; ingenuous |
| 联合政府 | lián hé zhèng fǔ | coalition government |
| 胸有城府 | xiōng yǒu chéng fǔ | subtle way of thinking (idiom); hard to fathom; deep and shrewd |
| 县政府 | xiàn zhèng fǔ | county administration; county regional government |
| 市政府 | shì zhèng fǔ | city hall; city government |
| 北洋政府 | Běi yáng zhèng fǔ | the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥|北洋… |
| 临时政府 | lín shí zhèng fǔ | provisional government |
| 政府官员 | zhèng fǔ guān yuán | government employee |
| 满清政府 | Mǎn Qīng zhèng fǔ | Manchurian Qing government |
| 春武里府 | Chūn wǔ lǐ fǔ | Chonburi province of east Thailand |
| 政府新闻处 | zhèng fǔ xīn wén chù | information services department |
| 反政府 | fǎn zhèng fǔ | anti-government (protest) |