Fu (country subdivision)

Fu
Chinese name
Chinese	府
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin  fǔ Wade–Giles fu3 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping fu2
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	phủ
Chữ Nôm	府
Korean name
Hangul	부
Hanja	府
Transcriptions Revised Romanization bu McCune–Reischauer pu
Japanese name
Kanji	府
Hiragana	ふ
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn fu

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	fǔ
Wade–Giles	fu3
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	fu2

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	bu
McCune–Reischauer	pu

Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	fu

Fu (Chinese: 府; pinyin:  fǔ) 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.

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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