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福 is pronounced “fu” in Chinese.
The character “fu” is posted by virtually all Chinese people on the doors of their homes during the Spring Festival (closely associated with the Chinese New Year).
One tradition from the Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 256 B.C.) holds that putting a fu symbol on your front door will keep the goddess of poverty away.
福 literally means good fortune, prosperity, blessed, blessedness, happiness, and fulfillment.
You'll also see this character in Vietnam (where Chinese characters were the written form until a romanization reform) where it is pronounced Phúc - a word commonly used in Vietnamese names because of its good meaning.
See Also: Lucky
幸 can mean happiness, good fortune, good luck, and in the old days, good harvest or bounty.
Note: From Japanese, this character is sometimes romanized as “sachi,” and is often pronounced “kou” or sometimes “rei” when used in compound words with other Kanji.
幸運 can be translated as “good luck,” fortunate, lucky, and/or “good fortune” in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Occasionally, this is also translated as a type of happiness or a short way to write serendipity.
紅五蝠 is a play on words in Chinese because of some homophones.
The first thing you need to know is that the word for bat, 蝠, sounds exactly like the word for good fortune, 福. Thus, bats are often associated with good luck and good fortune in Chinese culture.
Five bats (五福 / 五蝠) means “five fortunes,” referring to luck, prosperity, wealth, happiness, and longevity.
The word red, 红, has the same sound as 宏 meaning vast, great, or magnificent. Therefore, a red bat means “vast fortune.”
Altogether, five red bats represent vast reaches of the five fortunes.
幸せな偶然 is one of many ways to express serendipity in Japanese.
The first two characters mean happiness, good fortune, luck, or blessing.
In the middle is a Japanese Hiragana character connecting these words/ideas.
The last two Kanji mean incidentally, by chance, randomly, unexpectedly, suddenly, accident, fortuity, or by coincidence.
Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
(also means salary)
祿 is occasionally used in China to mean prosperity or good fortune.
祿 once meant the “official's salary” in old feudal China and Korea (obviously, the officials lived well, so you can imagine how this was associated with the idea of being prosperous).
祿 is only used in Korean historical documents for “salary.” In old Japanese, this means fief, allowance, stipend, reward, pension, grant, and sometimes happiness depending on context. It's very obscure in modern Japanese.
We have other entries that are better suited for a prosperity wall scroll. This entry just addresses “the coffee cup issue” where this character has been used on coffee cups and tee-shirts. However, without context, the meaning is ambiguous to some.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your happiness good fortune search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
幸 see styles |
xìng xing4 hsing rei / re れい |
More info & calligraphy: Happiness / Fortune / Lucky(1) good luck; fortune; happiness; (2) (さち only) (See 海の幸,山の幸) harvest; yield; (given name) Rei exactly |
福 see styles |
fú fu2 fu fukutsuru ふくつる |
More info & calligraphy: Good Luck / Good Fortunegood fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck; (surname) Fukutsuru Blessing, happiness, felicity, good fortune. |
倖せ see styles |
shiyawase しやわせ shiawase しあわせ |
(out-dated kanji) (ik) (noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing; (out-dated kanji) (noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
幸せ see styles |
shiyawase しやわせ shiawase しあわせ |
(ik) (noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing; (noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
果報 果报 see styles |
guǒ bào guo3 bao4 kuo pao kaho かほ |
karma; preordained fate (Buddhism) (noun or adjectival noun) (1) good fortune; luck; happiness; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) {Buddh} (See 業・ごう・1) vipaka (retribution); (female given name) Kaho 異熟 Retribution for good or evil deeds, implying that different conditions in this (or any) life are the variant ripenings, or fruit, of seed sown in previous life or lives. |
禍福 祸福 see styles |
huò fú huo4 fu2 huo fu kafuku かふく |
disaster and happiness fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe misfortune and fortune |
福祿 福禄 see styles |
fú lù fu2 lu4 fu lu fukuroku |
Happiness and emolument, good fortune here or hereafter. |
福運 see styles |
fukuun / fukun ふくうん |
happiness and good fortune |
笑門 see styles |
shoumon / shomon しょうもん |
(expression) (abbreviation) (on New Year's decorations hung over the front door) (See 笑門来福) (good fortune and happiness will come to) the home of those who smile; (given name) Shoumon |
仕合せ see styles |
shiyawase しやわせ shiawase しあわせ |
(noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
仕合わせ see styles |
shiyawase しやわせ shiawase しあわせ |
(noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
役者冥利 see styles |
yakushamyouri / yakushamyori やくしゃみょうり |
the happiness (good fortune) of being an actor; feeling blessed for being an actor |
笑門来福 see styles |
shoumonraifuku / shomonraifuku しょうもんらいふく |
(expression) (from Chinese 打開笑門福自來) (See 笑う門には福来る) good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile |
笑門福来 see styles |
shoumonfukurai / shomonfukurai しょうもんふくらい |
(expression) (from Chinese 打開笑門福自來) (See 笑う門には福来る) good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile |
笑う門には福来る see styles |
waraukadonihafukukitaru わらうかどにはふくきたる |
(expression) (proverb) (from Chi: 打開笑門福自來) laugh and grow fat; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile |
Variations: |
waraukadonihafukukitaru わらうかどにはふくきたる |
(exp,v5r) (proverb) laugh and grow fat; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile |
Variations: |
shiawase(p); shiyawase(ik) しあわせ(P); しやわせ(ik) |
(noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
Variations: |
shiawase(p); shiyawase(ik) しあわせ(P); しやわせ(ik) |
(noun or adjectival noun) happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Good Luck Good Fortune | 福 | fuku | fú / fu2 / fu | |
Happiness Fortune Lucky | 幸 | saki / sachi / rei / rē | xìng / xing4 / xing | hsing |
Love and Happiness | 幸福與愛 幸福与爱 | xìng fú yǔ ài xing4 fu2 yu3 ai4 xing fu yu ai xingfuyuai | hsing fu yü ai hsingfuyüai |
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Good Luck | 幸運 幸运 | kou un / kouun / ko un | xìng yùn / xing4 yun4 / xing yun / xingyun | hsing yün / hsingyün |
Five Red Bats | 紅五蝠 红五蝠 | hóng wǔ fú hong2 wu3 fu2 hong wu fu hongwufu | hung wu fu hungwufu |
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Serendipity Happy Coincidence | 幸せな偶然 | shiawa se na guu zen shiawasenaguuzen shiawa se na gu zen | ||
Prosperity | 祿 禄 | fuchi | lù / lu4 / lu | |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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