In my reading of various books on China, I occasionally run into city or town names with the last word being Fu. Until today, I just assumed that was part of the actual name of the place, but my book today referred to Kaifeng as Kaifeng Fu.

The Fu part seems to get added on in old texts (1800s, early 1900s) by westerners writing about Chinese places, rather than by the Chinese themselves. I think.

I've done some searches in various Chinese/English translators online and I'm not coming up with much of anything. THIS is the best of them and it doesn't tell me what I want to know.

So what does the Fu mean? Does anyone know?