府
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seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 +5
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 府
- Common rank
- #932
- Unicode
- U+5E9C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 府
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天府之国 | (idiom) land of plenty (usu. used in reference to Sichuan) | |
| 无政府主义 | anarchism | |
| 政府大学院 | the name of Academia Sinica 中央研究院[Zhong1 yang1 Yan2 jiu1 yuan4] when it was founded | |
| 打道回府 | to go home (in a ceremonial procession); to return home | |
| 人民政府 | people's government | |
| 国民政府 | Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925–1948) | |
| 政府机关 | government (viewed as an organization); institutions of government; government office | |
| 台南府 | Tainan Prefecture, a prefecture of Taiwan under Qing rule | |
| 胸无城府 | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything; ingenuous | |
| 联合政府 | coalition government | |
| 胸有城府 | subtle way of thinking (idiom); hard to fathom; deep and shrewd | |
| 县政府 | county administration; county regional government | |
| 市政府 | city hall; city government | |
| 北洋政府 | the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥|北洋… | |
| 临时政府 | provisional government | |
| 政府官员 | government employee | |
| 满清政府 | Manchurian Qing government | |
| 春武里府 | Chonburi province of east Thailand | |
| 政府新闻处 | information services department | |
| 反政府 | anti-government (protest) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 付 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 付 sound part | give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust | |
| 附 | nearby; to adhere to, to attach; to rely on | |
| 符 | amulet, charm; mark, tag; to correspond to | |
| 腐 | to spoil, to rot, to decay; rotten | |
| 咐 | to instruct; to order | |
| 拊 | to pat, to slap, to tap; the handle of a vessel | |
| 鲋 | carp; Carassicus auratus | |
| 苻 | a kind of herb; Angelica anomala | |
| 跗 | arch, instep | |
| 驸 | extra horse; imperial son-in-law |