府

Meaning

府 centers on a central administrative place: a government office, an urban prefecture, or a representative body. The storehouse sense extends this idea to a place where things are kept and managed.

• 政府せいふ
  N3

  government; administration; ministry

• 府ふ
  N1

  (urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto)

• 都道府県とどうふけん

  prefectures (of Japan); largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures

• 幕府ばくふ

  shogunate; bakufu

• 甲府こうふ

  Kōfu (city in Yamanashi)

• 府中ふちゅう

  provincial capital (under the ritsuryō system); provincial office

• 府警ふけい

  prefectural police (Osaka or Kyoto)

• 府知事ふちじ

  prefectural governor (of Osaka or Kyoto)

• 冥府めいふ

  realm of the dead; the other world; underworld

• 行政府ぎょうせいふ

  the government; Administration

• 府民ふみん

  prefectural resident (of Osaka or Kyoto)

• 府立ふりつ
  N1

  prefectural; managed by an urban prefecture (Osaka or Kyoto)

• 立法府りっぽうふ

  assize; court

• 府内ふない

  within the prefecture (of Kyoto or Osaka)

• 府県ふけん

  prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo and Hokkaido)

• 国府こくふ

  Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang)

• 道府県どうふけん

  prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo)

• 学府がくふ

  educational institution; academic centre; academic center

• 府議ふぎ

  prefectural assembly member (in Osaka or Kyoto Prefectures)

• 府議会ふぎかい

  prefectural assembly (in Kyoto or Osaka)

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