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happiness / happy / blessed
HSK 3
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  *福* | 福* | *福
good fortune / happiness / luck
HSK 3
blessings / to wish sb well
HSK 4
to put on weight / to get fat (a sign of prosperity, so a compliment)
vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
to feast one's eyes
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
to live comfortably / happy and prosperous life
younger generations will do all right on their own (idiom)
photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery)
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
Stanford or Stamford (name of various people, places and organizations, notably Stanford University)
to eat one's fill / to have a good meal
the more sons, the more happiness (idiom)
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
to benefit (e.g. the people)
HSK 7-9
happy knack for chancing upon fine food
(HK) (loanword) Tamiflu
Frankfurt, Germany
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
to appreciate one's good fortune
TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language
(old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
to have some good come out of a bad situation (idiom) / a blessing in disguise
to bless
to pray for blessings
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *福* | 福* | *福
surname Fu / abbr. for Fujian province 福建省
to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
fortune favors fools (idiom) / fool's luck
luck with women
to live in ease and comfort
Rutherford (name) / Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), early nuclear physicist from New Zealand
disaster and happiness
one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
good fortune / great blessing
a fool suffers foolish fortune (idiom)
fools have good fortune (idiom)
Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
to be blessed
to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
great and lasting happiness / lasting blessings
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford (place name) / Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
carefree and comfortable life (esp. in retirement)
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good / also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福|塞翁失马焉知非福
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
to accept a life of ease / to enjoy a comfortable retirement
a treat for the eyes / the rare chance of seeing sth beautiful
a great blessing / daifuku, a traditional Japanese sweet consisting of a soft, chewy outer layer made of glutinous rice (mochi) and a sweet filling, commonly red bean paste (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大福 "daifuku")
afterlife happiness
variant of 洪福
blessings from heaven


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