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(fǔ) - government office, mansion (bound) in Mandarin

Traditional: 府

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Translation

government office, mansion (bound)

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound: the shelter radical 广 marks it as a building, and 付 (fu) supplies the sound, giving the sense of an official residence or government office.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
广 (shelter radical) + 付 (fu, phonetic)

Stroke order

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Examples

The government released a report.

The capital is in the north.

He works for the government.

The government issued a new policy.

He walked into the royal residence.

府 (fǔ) means government office or mansion, the second half of 政府 (zhèngfǔ, government).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 府.

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This word is part of lesson 107.