禄
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good fortune; official salary
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 示 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 祿
- Common rank
- #1,415
- Unicode
- U+7984
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Formation & memory
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Words with 禄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 世禄之家 | family with hereditary emoluments | |
| 光禄大夫 | honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master" | |
| 长生禄位 | tablet in honor of a person who is still alive (or was alive when the tablet was created) | |
| 无功不受禄 | Don't get a reward if it's not deserved. (idiom) | |
| 安禄山 | An Lushan (703-757), Tang general, leader of the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂|安史之乱[An1 Shi3 zhi1 … | |
| 功名利禄 | position and wealth (idiom); rank, fame and fortune | |
| 加官进禄 | promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom) | |
| 无功受禄 | to get undeserved rewards (idiom) | |
| 福禄贝尔 | surname Fröbel or Froebel; Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782–1852), German pedagogue | |
| 伯多禄 | Peter (Catholic transliteration) | |
| 李天禄 | Li Tianlu (1910-1998), Taiwanese master puppeteer | |
| 荣禄大夫 | a rank in government service | |
| 他加禄语 | Tagalog (language) | |
| 高官厚禄 | high post and generous salary (idiom); promotion to a high official position | |
| 无禄 | to be unsalaried; to be unfortunate; death | |
| 天禄 | auspicious sculpted animal, usu. a unicorn or deer with a long tail; possession of the emp… | |
| 回禄之灾 | (idiom) fire disaster; conflagration | |
| 利禄 | wealth and official post | |
| 禄丰市 | Lufeng, a county-level city in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 z… | |
| 禄劝彝族苗族自治县 | Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, in Kunming City 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 Shi4], Yunnan |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 录 — compare how they read.