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  *福* | 福* | *福
good fortune / happiness / luck
HSK 3
happiness / happy / blessed
HSK 3
blessings / to wish sb well
HSK 4
to benefit (e.g. the people)
HSK 7-9
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  *福* | 福* | *福
surname Fu / abbr. for Fujian province 福建省
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")
Yongfu county in Guilin 桂林, Guangxi
Stratford (place name) / Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery)
Frankfurt, Germany
TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language
(old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
to bless
to pray for blessings
to be blessed
to appreciate one's good fortune
to put on weight / to get fat (a sign of prosperity, so a compliment)
to feast one's eyes
to have some good come out of a bad situation (idiom) / a blessing in disguise
to accept a life of ease / to enjoy a comfortable retirement
luck with women
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
Kaifu district of Changsha city 長沙市|长沙市, Hunan
blessings from heaven
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
to live in ease and comfort
Rutherford (name) / Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), early nuclear physicist from New Zealand
younger generations will do all right on their own (idiom)
to live comfortably / happy and prosperous life
good fortune / great blessing
carefree and comfortable life (esp. in retirement)
Stanford (University)
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
great and lasting happiness / lasting blessings
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
happy knack for chancing upon fine food
afterlife happiness
disaster and happiness
a treat for the eyes / the rare chance of seeing sth beautiful
Anfu county in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi
variant of 洪福
a fool suffers foolish fortune (idiom)
Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
the more sons, the more happiness (idiom)
one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
Stratford-upon-Avon
to eat one's fill / to have a good meal
fortune favors fools (idiom) / fool's luck
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
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful
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
fools have good fortune (idiom)
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
(HK) (loanword) Tamiflu


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