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

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/

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/	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/piuk̚/	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/piuk̚/	/ȶʰie^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwk̚/	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Li Rong	/piuk̚/	/ȶʰiə^X/
Wang Li	/pĭuk̚/	/ȶʰĭə^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯uk̚/	/ȶʰi^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu	chǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk¹	ci²

Noun

福祉

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

Synonyms

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 (fú) (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
(kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ふくし [fùkúꜜshì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟kɯ̟ɕi]

Noun

福(ふく)祉(し) • (fukushi)

welfare, well-being

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN