福祿

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See also: 福禄

Chinese

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 祿
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (1) (37)
Final () (4) (3)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter pjuwk luwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨuk̚/ /luk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/piuk̚/ /luk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuk̚/ /luk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puwk̚/ /ləwk̚/
Li
Rong
/piuk̚/ /luk̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭuk̚/ /luk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uk̚/ /luk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fuk1 luk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuwk › ‹ luwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*pək/ /*ˁok/
English blessing blessing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3395 8541
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯɡ/ /*roːɡ/

Etymology 1

good fortune; happiness; luck
good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
 
good fortune; official salary
trad. (福祿) 祿
simp. (福禄)

Noun

福祿

  1. wealth and happiness
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

phonetic
trad. (福祿) 祿
simp. (福禄)

According to the Stele of Record of Tianfei Showing Her Presence and Power (天妃靈應之記碑) in Fujian detailing the Ming-era, Zheng He-led treasure voyages, the zebra, or the “speckled fu-lu” (福祿), along with the lion (獅子狮子 (shīzi)), were exotic tributes by the “State of Mu-gu-du-shu” (木骨都束國), i.e. modern-day Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. This word is thus a phono-semantic matching, making use of the semantics of Etymology 1 to adapt a foreign name, likely Somali farow (zebra); compare Arabic فَرَأ (faraʔ), فَراء (farāʔ, onager; wild ass).

Noun

福祿

  1. (obsolete) zebra
Synonyms
Derived terms