福
Tap the pinyin to hear it
good fortune; happiness; luck
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 示 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 福
- Common rank
- #369
- Unicode
- U+798F
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 福 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
礻 meaning “spirit” + 畐 sound
Components 礻 畐
How to remember it
happiness · Heisig RSH #904
altar + wealth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 福
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯特拉特福 | Stratford (place name); Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of Wil… | |
| 加利福尼亚大学 | University of California | |
| 福山区 | Fushan, a district of Yantai City 煙台市|烟台市[Yan1 tai2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 多子多福 | the more sons, the more happiness (idiom) | |
| 布拉德福德 | Bradford, city in West Yorkshire, England | |
| 福海县 | Fuhai, a county in Altay Prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 安福县 | Anfu, a county in Ji'an City 吉安市[Ji2 an1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 福尔马林 | (loanword) formalin | |
| 福安市 | Fu'an, a county-level city in Ningde City 寧德市|宁德市[Ning2 de2 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 福克斯 | Fox (media company); Focus (car manufactured by Ford) | |
| 加利福尼亚理工学院 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | |
| 开福区 | Kaifu, a district of Changsha City 長沙市|长沙市[Chang2 sha1 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 福斯特 | Foster or Forster (name); Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer | |
| 加利福尼亚州 | California | |
| 加利福尼亚 | California | |
| 罗斯福 | Roosevelt (name); Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909; Franklin D. Roos… | |
| 福利事业 | welfare services | |
| 法兰克福 | Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 马可福音 | Gospel according to St Mark | |
| 福州市 | Fuzhou, prefecture-level city and capital of Fujian Province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 畐 — compare how they read.