褔

See also: 福

褔 U+8914, 褔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8914 ← 褓 [U+8913] CJK Unified Ideographs 褕 → [U+8915]

Translingual

Han character

褔 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+9, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 中一口田 (LMRW), four-corner 3126₆, composition ⿰衤畐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1121, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34439
• Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3102, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8914

Chinese

simp. and trad.		褔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (畐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
富	*pɯɡs
輻	*pɯɡs, *pɯɡ
副	*pʰɯɡs, *pʰrɯɡ, *pʰɯɡ
褔	*pʰɯɡs
蔔	*bɯːɡ
匐	*bɯːɡ, *bɯɡ
逼	*prɯɡ
偪	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
幅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
楅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
湢	*prɯɡ
堛	*pʰrɯɡ
愊	*pʰrɯɡ
踾	*pʰrɯɡ, *brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
揊	*pʰrɯɡ
稫	*pʰrɯɡ
畐	*pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ
疈	*pʰrɯɡ
腷	*brɯɡ
鶝	*brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
福	*pɯɡ
蝠	*pɯɡ
葍	*pɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰɯɡs): semantic 衤 (“clothing”) + phonetic 畐 (OC *pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu³
    • Yale: fu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hù
    • Tâi-lô: hù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hux
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hu²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hu¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: phjuwH

Rime
Character	褔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷救切
Baxter	phjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuwH/
Li Rong	/pʰiuH/
Wang Li	/pʰĭəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	褔
Reading #	1/1
No.	3375
Phonetic component	畐
Rime group	代
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	副
Old Chinese	/*pʰɯɡs/

Definitions

褔

1. (Classical) to be filled with; to brim with; to have in abundance
2. (Classical) Classifier for sets of clothing.
3. original form of 副 (fù)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with 福 (“happiness”) which contains 礻 as its radical component.

References

• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “褔”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04528