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Japanese
Etymology
Phrase consisting of 笑う (warau, “to laugh”) + 門 (kado, “gate, door; house, household; family”) + に (ni, directional particle) + は (wa, topic and contrastive particle) + 福 (fuku, “good fortune”) + 来る (kitaru, “to come along, to make its way to”).[1][2][3]
First cited to a text from the late 1500s.[1]
Pronunciation
Idiom
笑う門には福来る • (warau kado ni wa fuku kitaru)
- good fortune comes to the homes of those who smile
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “笑門には福来たる”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ “笑う門には福来る”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN