福祿
See also: 福禄
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Etymology 1 edit
good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname |
good fortune; official salary | ||
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trad. (福祿) | 福 | 祿 | |
simp. (福禄) | 福 | 禄 |
Noun edit
福祿
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Etymology 2 edit
phonetic | |||
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trad. (福祿) | 福 | 祿 | |
simp. (福禄) | 福 | 禄 |
According to the Stele of Record of Tianfei Showing Her Presence and Power (天妃靈應之記碑) in Fujian detailing the Ming-era, Zheng He-led treasure voyages, the zebra, or the “speckled fu-lu” (花福祿), along with the lion (獅子/狮子 (shīzi)), were exotic tributes by the “State of Mu-gu-du-shu” (木骨都束國), i.e. modern-day Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. This word is thus a phono-semantic matching, making use of the semantics of Etymology 1 to adapt a foreign name, likely Somali farow (“zebra”); compare Arabic فَرَأ (faraʔ), فَراء (farāʔ, “onager; wild ass”).
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福祿