府 (fu2 | fu3) : seat of government

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府

fu2

fu3

[1] seat of government; state organs; government agency
[2] mansion; residence; abode; domicile
[3] [archaic] prefecture

Stroke count: 8

Level: 3

Radical: 广 (#53)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

府

This word has been viewed 6969 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:45

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廣府話 gwong2 fu2 waa6*2 guang3 fu3 hua4 = Cantonese language

政府機關 zing3 fu2 gei1 gwaan1 zheng4 fu3 ji1 guan1 = government organization

政府 zing3 fu2 zheng4 fu3 = government

中國政府 zung3 gwok3 zing3 fu2 zhong1 guo2 zheng4 fu3 = the Chinese government

美國政府 mei5 gwok3 zing3 fu2 mei3 guo2 zheng4 fu3 = U.S./American government

政府部門 zing3 fu2 bou6 mun4 zheng4 fu3 bu4 men2 = government branch

政府機構 zing3 fu2 gei1 kau3 zheng4 fu3 ji1 gou4 = government organization

無政府主義 mou4 zing3 fu2 zyu2 ji6 = anarchism

總統府 zung2 tung2 fu2 zong3 tong3 fu3 = presidential palace

華府 waa4 fu2 hua2 fu3 = the (US) government in Washington
See all 47 compounds (CantoDict reports 50 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 府

國家政府一直監察著你，最好自己小心啲粵
The government has been monitoring you all along - you had best be careful.

政府打算加派警察出街巡邏。粵
The government intends to increase the number of policemen on the beat.
[A typical Cantonese sentence uses more verbs than the English version.]

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Decimal representation of this word: 府
Unicode code for this character: U+5e9c (off-site link)

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