福

Translingual

Han character

福 (radical 113 示+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈火一口田 (IFMRW), four-corner 3126₆, composition ⿰礻畐)

References

• KangXi: page 845, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24768
• Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2404, character 3
• Unihan data for U+798F
• Unihan data for U+FA1B ZVariant

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Chinese

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Etymology

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 富 ("rich"), Old Tibetan ཕྱུགས (phyugs, “livestock”).

Graphically: Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 示 + phonetic 畐.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú, fù (fu², fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ, ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fuk
• Min Nan (POJ): hok
• Wu (WT Romanisation): foq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk¹
    • Yale: fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fuk
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fuk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok
    • Tâi-lô: hok
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: foq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (福, reconstructed)
Character (福), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 方六切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɨuk̚/	/pi̯uk̚/	/piuk̚/	/piuk̚/	/puwk̚/	/pĭuk̚/	/piuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (福, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
福								fú								‹ pjuwk ›								/*pək/								blessing
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
福					3395					畐					職					0					福					/*pɯɡ/

Definitions

福

1. blessing, happiness, good fortune, prosperity
2. Abbreviation of 福建.
3. A surname​. Fu.

Compounds

Derived terms

• 享福

• 幸福

• 祝福

• 福份

• 福利

• 福地

• 福壽／福寿

• 福杯

• 福樂／福乐

• 福氣／福气

• 福澤／福泽

• 福祉

• 福祿壽／福禄寿

• 福薄

• 福音

• 福音書／福音书

• 造福

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (福):

• Japanese: 福 (ふく, fuku)
• Korean: 복 (福, bok)
• Vietnamese: phúc, phước (福)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu³
    • Yale: fu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (福, reconstructed)
Character (福), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 滂 (2) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 敷救切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʰɨuH/	/pʰi̯ə̯uH/	/pʰiuH/	/pʰiuH/	/pʰuwH/	/pʰĭəuH/	/pʰiəuH/

Definitions

福

1. ^† to store, to garner
2. ^† to conform to, to fit in with

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Japanese

Kanji

福

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. good luck, good fortune
2. blessing
3. wealth

Readings

• Goon: ふく (fuku)
• Kan’on: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai) (non-Jōyō reading) (rare), ひもろぎ (himorogi) (non-Jōyō reading) (rare)
• Nanori: とし (toshi), とみ (tomi), ふ (fu), ふき (fuki), ぼく (boku), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 幸福 (こうふく) (kōfuku): happiness
• 福禄寿 (ふくろくじゅ) (Fukurokuju): Fukurokuju; one of the seven gods of good fortune

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Korean

Hanja

福 (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

福 (phúc, phước)

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