福
Meanings
Noun
1. good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ふく
Used in vocabulary
福笑い
fukuwarai; New Year's game in which blindfolded players place cutouts of facial features onto the outline of a face
Noun
Examples5
災い
Turn your misfortune to account.
笑う
Fortune comes in by a merry gate.
災い
Good comes out of evil.
災い
Make the best of a bad bargain.
彼
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.