Fu (administrative division)
Fu (Chinese: 府; pinyin: ⓘ) is a traditional administrative division of Chinese origin used in the East Asian cultural sphere, translated variously as commandery, prefecture, urban prefecture, or city. They were first instituted as a regular form of administrative division of China's Tang Empire, but were later adopted in Vietnam, Japan and Korea. At present, only two fu still remain: the prefectures of Kyoto and Osaka in Japan.
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| Chinese | 府 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | phủ | ||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 府 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 부 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 府 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 府 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | ふ | ||||||||||||||||
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Look up 府 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The term fu is currently also used in Chinese to translate the provinces of Thailand, but not those of mainland China, Taiwan or other countries.
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