for looking further into the meaning of Fu. Your research has provided some different meanings than what I came up with, but still, none of them explain the addition of this word to place names in China in the writings of westerners, nor tells me if this was purely a western addition, or if the Chinese themselves did the same thing. It has to have been added for a reason. Doesn't it? But what is it?

The next question is: why is this bothering me so much? LOL