府
fǔ HSK4

government

府 fǔ
mansion noun
an official residence, mansion, or palace

这座王府保留了典型的清代建筑风格。

zhè zuò wáng fǔ bǎo​liú le diǎn​xíng de Qīng​dài jiàn​zhù fēng​gé.

This prince's mansion preserves a typical Qing Dynasty architectural style.

government office organization
the seat of government or a government repository for archives and records

那批重要的契约和文书都封存在府里。

nà pī zhòng​yào de qì​yuē hé wén​shū dōu fēng​cún zài fǔ lǐ.

Those important contracts and documents are all sealed away in the mansion.

prefecture place name
an administrative division in historical China, used from the Tang to Qing dynasties

这部小说描述了当年开封府的断案故事。

zhè bù xiǎo​shuō miáo​shù le dāng​nián Kāi​fēng fǔ de duàn'àn gù​shi.

This novel describes the case-solving stories of Kaifeng Prefecture from that era.

your home noun
an honorific term referring to the listener's home

如有机会，我一定亲自登府拜访您。

rú yǒu jī​huì, wǒ yī​dìng qīn​zì dēng fǔ bài​fǎng nín.

If the opportunity arises, I will certainly visit your home in person.

Frequency
Character
Written text
417th most common 520.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,055th most common 94.0 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.31 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
35.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5E9C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)