禍福

Chinese

		disaster	good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
trad. (禍福)		禍	福
simp. (祸福)		祸	福
anagram		福禍／福祸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huòfú

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁶ fuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huòfú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huòfú
    • Wade–Giles: huo⁴-fu²
    • Yale: hwò-fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huohfwu
    • Palladius: хофу (xofu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹ fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁶ fuk¹
    • Yale: woh fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁶ fuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁶ fug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²² fʊk̚⁵/

Noun

禍福

1. good fortune and misfortune; good times and hard times; happiness and suffering

   • 禍福倚伏，何常之有？豈失一死，何遽如是也！ [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     祸福倚伏，何常之有？岂失一死，何遽如是也！ [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE

     Huòfú yǐfú, hé cháng zhī yǒu? Qǐ shī yī sǐ, hé jù rúshì yě! [Pinyin]

     There is no set pattern to bad and good fortune. Since we will all die one day anyway, why hasten death?

Derived terms

• 人有旦夕禍福／人有旦夕祸福
• 天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福／天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福 (tiān yǒu bùcè fēngyún, rén yǒu dànxī huòfú)
• 旦夕禍福／旦夕祸福
• 禍福倚伏／祸福倚伏
• 禍福同門／祸福同门
• 禍福惟人／祸福惟人
• 禍福有命／祸福有命
• 禍福無偏／祸福无偏
• 禍福無常／祸福无常
• 禍福無門／祸福无门
• 禍福由人／祸福由人
• 禍福相倚／祸福相倚
• 禍福相生／祸福相生
• 禍福與共／祸福与共
• 禍福靡常／祸福靡常