福
福 — bok
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 복 복
- Romanization
- bok
- English
- happiness, good fortune, blessing
- Mandarin
- fú
- Japanese on'yomi
- フク, フウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さいわい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #467 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 示 (113, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+798F
Parts that make up 福
- 礻 보일 시, 땅 귀신 기variant of 示 제물을 올린 제단제사와 신, 하늘이 내리는 일. 왼쪽에서 礻 로 쓴다
- 畐 가득 채운 항아리‘복·핍’ 계열의 소리
How 福 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 福 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 示, 畐.
Korean example words with 福
- 기복祈福 Korean gloss: 복을 빎
- 청복淸福 Korean gloss: 좋은 복
- 홍복洪福 Korean gloss: 큰 행복
- 복운福運 Korean gloss: 좋은 운수
- 복음福音 Korean gloss: 기쁜 소식
- 복지福祉 Korean gloss: 행복한 삶
- 향복享福 Korean gloss: 복을 누림
- 지복至福 Korean gloss: 더없는 행복
- 복력福力 Korean gloss: 복을 누리는 힘
- 분복分福 Korean gloss: 각자 타고난 복
- 행복幸福 Korean gloss: 복된 좋은 운수
- 만복晩福 Korean gloss: 늘그막에 누리는 복
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 福
- 福祉ふくし welfare; well-being; social welfare
- 福ふく good fortune; happiness; blessing
- 社会福祉しゃかいふくし social welfare
- 幸福こうふく happiness; well-being; joy
- 福助ふくすけ large-headed dwarf statue, bringer of good luck
- 祝福しゅくふく celebration (of a joyous occasion); blessing; giving one's blessing
- 裕福ゆうふく wealthy; rich; affluent
- 福利厚生ふくりこうせい employee welfare; employee benefits; fringe benefits
- 福音ふくいん good news; glad tidings; gospel (teachings or revelations of Christ)
- 至福しふく beatitude; supreme bliss
- 大福だいふく great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam
- 福徳ふくとく fortune; happiness and prosperity
Other hanja read “복”
Other hanja with radical 示
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences