大福

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
simp. and trad. (大福)		大	福
anagram		福大

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàfú

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ fuk¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-fuk

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàfú
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàfú
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-fu²
  - Yale: dà-fú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfwu
  - Palladius: дафу (dafu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ fu³⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    大幅
    大福
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ fuk¹
  - Yale: daaih fūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ fuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ fug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² fʊk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-fuk
  - Hakka Romanization System: tai fug^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ fug⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuk̚²/

Noun

大福

great blessing
daifuku, a Japanese confection consisting of a mochi stuffed with red bean paste

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	福
だい Grade: 1	ふく Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 大腹餅 (だいふくもち, daifuku mochi, “big stomach mochi (“very filling mochi”)”), by replacing 腹 (ふく, fuku, “stomach”) by homophone 福 (ふく, fuku, “luck”).

Previously 腹太餅 (はらぶともち, harabuto mochi (“very filling mochi”), “stomach fat mochi”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) だいふく [dàífúkúꜜ] (Odaka – [4])^[2]
IPA^(key): [da̠iɸɯ̟kɯ̟]

Noun

大(だい)福(ふく) • (daifuku)

daifuku, a Japanese confection consisting of a mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with 餡子 (あんこ, anko, “red bean paste”).

References

^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], 19 November 2008 (last accessed), archived from the original on 22 May 2007
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[1] “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], 19 November 2008 (last accessed), archived from the original on 22 May 2007

[NHK-2] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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