(fǔ) - government office, mansion (bound) in Mandarin
fǔTraditional: 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
府
Examples
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The government released a report.
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The capital is in the north.
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He works for the government.
策。
The government issued a new policy.
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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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