fú
happiness
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 福
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
happiness | ||
blessings | ||
luck | ||
Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1] | ||
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。” |
Sources
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