福

福 U+798F, 福 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F ← 禎 [U+798E] CJK Unified Ideographs 禐 → [U+7990]

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]

Stroke order

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

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• 𫴗, 䕐, 𤑐

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 845, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24768
• Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2404, character 3
• Unihan data for U+798F

• Unihan data for U+FA1B

• Unihan data for U+2F956

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• 福 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 福 (Cantonese)

Historical forms of the character 福
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Proto-Sino-Tibetan [Term?]. Cognate with 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”), Tibetan ཕྱུགས (phyugs, “livestock”).

福

1. blessing; happiness; prosperity; good fortune

   口福  ―  kǒufú  ―  gourmet's luck

   享福  ―  xiǎngfú  ―  to enjoy a happy life

   托你的福  ―  tuō nǐ de fú  ―  thanks to you

   禍福相依／祸福相依  ―  huòfúxiàngyī  ―  fortune and misfortune are interdependent

   福如東海／福如东海  ―  fúrúdōnghǎi  ―  to have boundless happiness

   • 彌月不遲，是生后稷，降之百福。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     弥月不迟，是生后稷，降之百福。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Míyuè bù chí, shì shēng Hòujì, jiàng zhī bǎi fú. [Pinyin]

     Immediately, when her months were fulfilled,
     She gave birth to Hou-ji.
     On him were conferred all blessings.

2. (obsolete) to bless

   • 小信未孚，神弗福也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Xiǎoxìn wèi fú, shén fú fú yě. [Pinyin]

     Such paltry faith wins no trust. The gods will not bless you.

3. Short for 福建 (Fújiàn, “Fujian”).
4. a surname. Fu

• (blessing): 幸福 (xìngfú)
• (good fortune):

• (antonym(s) of “blessing”): (literary, or in compounds) 禍／祸 (huò)

福

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

福

1. Only used in 福埔 (“a place in Jinjiang, Fujian”).

• “福”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	福
Kyūjitai [1]	福 福 or 福+︀?
	福󠄁 福+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	福󠄃 福+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 福)

1. good fortune, good luck

• Go-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 福い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, 福ひ, historical)}
• Nanori: さき (saki)、さち (sachi)、たる (taru)、とし (toshi)、とみ (tomi)、ね (ne)、ふ (fu)、ふき (fuki)、ぼく (boku)、むら (mura)、もと (moto)、よ (yo)、よし (yoshi)

From Middle Chinese 福 (MC pjuwk).

• (Tokyo) ふく [fùkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟kɯ̟]

福(ふく) • (fuku) 

1. good luck, good fortune

   Synonym: 幸運 (kōun)

   Antonym: 禍 (ka)

2. happiness
3. (Shinto, Buddhism) a blessing

福(ふく) • (fuku) -na (adnominal 福(ふく)な (fuku na), adverbial 福(ふく)に (fuku ni))

1. wealthy

福(ふく) • (Fuku) 

1. a placename
2. a surname
3. a female given name

福(ふく) • (fuku) 

1. Short for 福岡 (Fukuoka, “Fukuoka (a prefecture of Japan)”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [po̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [복]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

福

Wikisource

福 (eumhun 복 복 (bok bok))

1. hanja form^? of 복 (“fortune”)

福: Hán Nôm readings: phúc, phước, Phúc

1. happy
2. fortunate
3. blessing