surname Fu / abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 sheng3]

= + : Frieda Fox is preparing for the new year's festival. She put a big red sticker with a golden 福 character on the space station's door, and to prepare for the stress that her visiting parents bring she meditates wearing a monk's cowl and quietly popping bubble wrap. She looks at the golder character and prays for a good fortune.
good fortune / happiness / luck

= + : Frieda Fox is preparing for the new year's festival. She put a big red sticker with a golden 福 character on the space station's door, and to prepare for the stress that her visiting parents bring she meditates wearing a monk's cowl and quietly popping bubble wrap. She looks at the golder character and prays for a good fortune.

福 character breakdown

Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : A cult: I'll represent this with a monk's cowl in other mnemonics.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: bubble wrap. Frieda Fox has to harvest a field of genetically modified mandarins in the space station's kitchen. The mandarins have been modified so that they listen to the tune Frieda Fox is playing on her flute; thus, as she plays her melody, the mandarins dance and wrap themselves in bubble wrap, hop into a box and are ready to be shipped to the labs on earth.

Characters with 福 as component

福 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 福

(old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language
Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice
to appreciate one's good fortune
Operation Blessing (charitable relief organization)
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
fools have good fortune (idiom)
Flevoland, province in Netherlands

Sentences with 福

福 currently does not appear in any sentence.