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Kanji Detail for 府 - "government, office, prefecture"
府
- Meaning
府 means "government, office, prefecture."
Government office - An administrative building.
Prefecture - An administrative division.
Residence - A mansion; a palace.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
borough; urban prefecture; govt office; representative body; storehouse
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
prefecture; prefect; government
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
prefect; prefecture, government
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A document archive. Officials managing archives are also called 府. Now, government offices are called 府. Such as 政府. | To gather. A place storing wealth is called 府. Also, collective resentment is called 怨府. | An official. Such as high officials called 大府. | A regional administrative unit. In the old system, counties were under prefectures, prefectures under provinces. The official governing a prefecture was called 知府. | A residence. Such as calling someone's residence 某府. | Family. Such as "father" as 府君, like 家君.
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Sentences including 府
The government should do away with those old regulations.
The government was overthrown.
政府もなすすべがないようだ。
It sounds as if the government doesn't know what to do.
Japan recognized the new government of that country.
The government makes us pay tax.
The government of the country is now stable.
The british government is against the plan.
We oppose the government on this matter.
She had a high government appointment.
The government turned down the request.