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Chinese
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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福
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祿
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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fú
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lù
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Middle Chinese
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‹ pjuwk ›
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‹ luwk ›
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Old Chinese
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/*pək/
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/*ˁok/
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English
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blessing
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blessing
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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福
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祿
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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3395
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8541
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Phonetic component
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畐
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录
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Rime group
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職
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屋
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Rime subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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福
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禄
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Old Chinese
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/*pɯɡ/
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/*roːɡ/
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Etymology 1
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good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
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good fortune; official salary
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trad. (福祿)
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福
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祿
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simp. (福禄)
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福
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禄
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Noun
福祿
- wealth and happiness
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
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” (花福祿), 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
- (obsolete) zebra
Synonyms
Derived terms