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福

fú

happiness

Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.

Components
礻 meaning component

礻  Meaning component

shì

  

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

畐 sound component

畐  Sound component

fú

  

to fill

Evolution

福 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
福 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
福 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
福 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

福  

fú

happiness, good fortune, blessing; good fortune; happiness; luck

福  

Fú

surname Fu; abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fú​jiàn​shěng]

Most common words with 福
Freq.
Word
Meaning

幸福

happiness

祝福

blessings

福

luck

福尔摩斯

Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1]

福利

material benefit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pək

pjuwk

fú

blessing


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 44.5939% of movies

736th most common character in movies

683rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+798F

Shuowen

“福，祐也。从示，畐聲。”


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