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Kanji Detail for 府 - "government office, prefecture, residence"

府

  • Meaning

    府 means "government office, prefecture, residence."

    1. Government office - An administrative building.

    2. Prefecture - An administrative division.

    3. Residence - A mansion; a palace.

  • Words using 府

    • 政府 せいふ Listen government; administration; ministry
    • 都道府県 とどうふけん Listen prefectures (of Japan); largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures
    • 府警 ふけい Listen prefectural police (Osaka or Kyoto)
    • 総理府 そうりふ Listen Prime Minister's office; PMO
    • 府立 ふりつ Listen prefectural; managed by an urban prefecture (Osaka or Kyoto)
    • 州政府 しゅうせいふ Listen state government
    • 幕府 ばくふ Listen shogunate; bakufu; shogun's headquarters
    • 府県 ふけん Listen prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo and Hokkaido)

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    • Verified meaning: government office, prefecture, residence
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ふたか)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 府

    Surnames 府(ふたか)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    fu(フ) フ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    广 (madare)

  • Related Keywords

    government office prefecture residence gathering place intestine mansion storehouse district administration authority building dwelling governor jurisdiction municipality palace

Sentences including 府

  • The government should do away with those old regulations.

  • The government was overthrown.

  • 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.

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