福

福	U+798F, 福 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F

福	U+FA1B, 福 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA1B

← 祥
[U+FA1A]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

靖 →
[U+FA1C]

福	U+2F956, 福 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F956

← 𥛅
[U+2F955]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

秫 →
[U+2F957]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

福 (radical 113, 示+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火一口田 (IFMRW), four-corner 3126₆, composition ⿰礻畐(GHTJV) or ⿰示畐(K))

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References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.		福

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Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 福
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (畐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
富	*pɯɡs
輻	pɯɡs, pɯɡ
副	pʰɯɡs, pʰrɯɡ, *pʰɯɡ
褔	*pʰɯɡs
蔔	*bɯːɡ
匐	bɯːɡ, bɯɡ
逼	*prɯɡ
偪	prɯɡ, pɯɡ
幅	prɯɡ, pɯɡ
楅	prɯɡ, pɯɡ
湢	*prɯɡ
堛	*pʰrɯɡ
愊	*pʰrɯɡ
踾	pʰrɯɡ, brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
揊	*pʰrɯɡ
稫	*pʰrɯɡ
畐	pʰrɯɡ, bɯɡ
疈	*pʰrɯɡ
腷	*brɯɡ
鶝	brɯɡ, pɯɡ
福	*pɯɡ
蝠	*pɯɡ
葍	*pɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pɯɡ): semantic 示 + phonetic 畐 (OC *pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ).

Etymology[edit]

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”), Tibetan ཕྱུགས (phyugs, “livestock”).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fú (fu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fuk
Min Dong (BUC): hók
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): hok

(Teochew, Peng'im): hog⁴
Wu (Wiktionary): foq (T4)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
  - Wade–Giles: fu²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
  - IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fuk¹
  - Yale: fūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: fug¹
  - IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fuk
  - Hakka Romanization System: fug`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fug⁵
  - IPA: /fuk̚²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hók
  - IPA ^(key): /houʔ²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok
  - Tâi-lô: hok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hog
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hog⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hok
  - IPA ^(key): /hok̚²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: foq (T4)
  - IPA ^(key): /fʊʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /pɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	福
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwk̚/
Li Rong	/piuk̚/
Wang Li	/pĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pək/

(Zhengzhang): /*pɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	福
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*pək/
English	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	福
Reading #	1/1
No.	3395
Phonetic component	畐
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	福
Old Chinese	/*pɯɡ/

Definitions[edit]

福

blessing; happiness; good fortune; prosperity
Short for 福建 (Fújiàn, “Fujian”).
A surname. Fu.

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (福):

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

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 福

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fù
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
  - Wade–Giles: fu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
  - IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu³
  - Yale: fu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu³
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu³
  - IPA ^(key): /fuː³³/

Middle Chinese: /pʰɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	福
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuw^H/
Li Rong	/pʰiu^H/
Wang Li	/pʰĭəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fòu

Definitions[edit]

福

^† to store; to garner
^† to conform to; to fit in with

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai

Kanji[edit]

Readings[edit]

Go-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
Kan-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 福い); ひもろぎ (himorogi)
Nanori: とし (toshi); とみ (tomi); ふ (fu); ふき (fuki); ぼく (boku); よし (yoshi)

Compounds[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

福 (hiragana ふく, rōmaji fuku)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

fortune

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

福 (phúc, phước)

福

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Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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