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ぶく U+798F, 福
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F
ただし
[U+798E]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7990]

ぶく U+FA1B, 福
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA1B
さち
[U+FA1A]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs やすし
[U+FA1C]

福 U+2F956, 福
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F956
𥛅
[U+2F955]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 秫
[U+2F957]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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ぶく (Kangxi radical 113, しめせ+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input ほこいちくち (IFMRW), four-corner 31266, composition (GHTJV) or (K))

 
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Derived characters

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References

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  • 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

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
ぶく
alternative forms ancient
 
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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character ぶく
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 (形聲けいせい形声けいせい, OC *pɯɡ) : semantic しめせ + phonetic (OC *pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation 1

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Rime
Character ぶく
Reading # 2/2
Initial (こえ) (1)
Final (いん) (4)
Tone (調しらべ) Checked (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) III
Fanqie ほうろくきり
Baxter pjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/piuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puwk̚/
Li
Rong
/piuk̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fuk1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character ぶく
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*pək/
English blessing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character ぶく
Reading # 1/1
No. 3395
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
しょく
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
ぶく
Old
Chinese
/*pɯɡ/

Definitions

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ぶく

  1. blessing; happiness; prosperity; good fortune
    くちぶく  ―  kǒu  ―  gourmet's luck
    とおるぶく  ―  xiǎng  ―  to enjoy a happy life
    たくてきぶく  ―  tuō nǐ de   ―  thanks to you
    わざわいぶくあいぶくあい  ―  huòxiàngyī  ―  fortune and misfortune are interdependent
    ぶく東海とうかいぶく如东うみ  ―  rúdōnghǎi  ―  to have boundless happiness
  2. (obsolete) to bless
  3. Short for 福建ふっけん (Fújiàn, “Fujian”).
  4. a surname. Fu

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (ぶく):

Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character ぶく
Reading # 1/2
Initial (こえ) (2)
Final (いん) ゆう (136)
Tone (調しらべ) Departing (H)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) III
Fanqie じきすくいきり
Baxter phjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰuwH/
Li
Rong
/pʰiuH/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fau3

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ぶく

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

Pronunciation 3

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Definitions

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ぶく

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

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai ぶく
Kyūjitai
[1]

ぶく
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or
ぶく+&#xFE00;?
 
ぶく󠄁
ぶく+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
ぶく󠄃
ぶく+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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ぶく

(Third grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form ぶく)

  1. good fortune, good luck

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
ぶく
ふく
Grade: 3
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
ぶく (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese ぶく (MC pjuwk).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ぶく(ふく) (fuku

  1. good luck, good fortune
    Synonym: 幸運こううん (kōun)
    Antonym: わざわい (ka)
  2. happiness
  3. (Shinto, Buddhism) a blessing

Derived terms

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Adjective

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ぶく(ふく) (fuku-na (adnominal ぶく(ふく) (fuku na), adverbial ぶく(ふく) (fuku ni))

  1. wealthy

Inflection

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Proper noun

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ぶく(ふく) (Fuku

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

Affix

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ぶく(ふく) (fuku

  1. Short for 福岡ふくおか (Fukuoka, Fukuoka (a province of Japan)).

References

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  1. ^ ぶく”, in 漢字かんじぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林だいじりん [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

ぶく (eumhun (bok bok))

  1. hanja form? of (fortune)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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ぶく: Hán Nôm readings: phúc, phước, Phúc

  1. happy
  2. fortunate
  3. blessing