官府

Chinese

		official; government; organ of body	prefecture; mansion
simp. and trad. (官府)		官	府

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guānfǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹ fu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koaⁿ-hú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānfǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ ㄈㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guanfǔ
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹-fu³
    • Yale: gwān-fǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanfuu
    • Palladius: гуаньфу (guanʹfu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹ fu²
    • Yale: gūn fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun¹ fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵ fuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koaⁿ-hú
    • Tâi-lô: kuann-hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvoa'huo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuã³³ hu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuã⁴⁴⁻³³ hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuã⁴⁴⁻³³ hu⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kwan pjuX

Rime
Character	官	府
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	古丸切	方矩切
Baxter	kwan	pjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑn/	/pɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn/	/pioX/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn/	/pioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan/	/puə̆X/
Li Rong	/kuɑn/	/pioX/
Wang Li	/kuɑn/	/pĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑn/	/pi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān	fǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun1	fu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤa[n]  p(r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːn  poʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	官	府
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān	fǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ kwan ›	‹ pjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁa[n]/	/*p(r)oʔ/
English	official (n.)	repository
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	官	府
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4435	3511
Phonetic component	官	付
Rime group	元	侯
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	官	甫
Old Chinese	/*koːn/	/*poʔ/

Noun

官府

1. (archaic) offices of local government
2. (archaic) local authorities
3. (archaic) feudal official

Derived terms

• 官府菜 (guānfǔcài)