福祉

Chinese

		good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname	felicity
simp. and trad. (福祉)		福	祉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fúzhǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fuk-chṳ́
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hok-chí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hog⁴ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fúzhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fújhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-chih³
    • Yale: fú-jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwujyy
    • Palladius: фучжи (fučži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk¹ zi²
    • Yale: fūk jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fuk-chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: fug^ˋ zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fug⁵ zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /fuk̚² t͡sɨ³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok-chí
    • Tâi-lô: hok-tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hokcie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡si⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hog⁴ zi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hok tsí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hok̚²⁻⁴ t͡si⁵²⁻²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuwk trhiX

Rime
Character	福	祉
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	方六切	敕里切
Baxter	pjuwk	trhiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨuk̚/	/ʈʰɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/piuk̚/	/ʈʰɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/piuk̚/	/ȶʰieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwk̚/	/ʈʰɨX/
Li Rong	/piuk̚/	/ȶʰiəX/
Wang Li	/pĭuk̚/	/ȶʰĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯uk̚/	/ȶʰiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu	chǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk1	ci2

Noun

福祉

1. (formal) welfare; well-being

   謀福祉／谋福祉  ―  móu fúzhǐ  ―  to work for the well-being (of the people)

Synonyms

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• 好字運 / 好字运 (Hokkien)
• 好彩 (Hakka, obsolete or Cantonese)
• 好運 / 好运 (hǎoyùn)
• 幸運 / 幸运 (xìngyùn)
• 機緣 / 机缘 (jīyuán)
• 福 (literary, or in compounds)
• 福分 (fúfèn)
• 福氣 / 福气
• 福澤 / 福泽 (fúzé)
• 福祚 (fúzuò) (literary)
• 福運 / 福运 (Hokkien)
• 造化 (zàohua)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (福祉):

• → Japanese: 福(ふく)祉(し) (fukushi)
• → Korean: 복지(福祉) (bokji)

See also

• 福利 (fúlì)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
福	祉
ふく Grade: 3	し Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
福祉 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ふくし [fùkúꜜshì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟kɯ̟ɕi]

Noun

福(ふく)祉(し) • (fukushi) 

1. welfare, well-being