福田
Chinese
good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname |
field; farm | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (福田) |
福 | 田 | |
Etymology
Calque of Sanskrit पुण्यक्षेत्र (puṇyakṣetra), from पुण्य (puṇya, “merit”) + क्षेत्र (kṣetra, “field”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: fútián
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: fútián
- Wade–Giles: fu2-tʻien2
- Yale: fú-tyán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwutyan
- Palladius: футянь (futjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /fu³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fuk1 tin4
- Yale: fūk tìhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: fuk7 tin4
- Guangdong Romanization: fug1 tin4
- Sinological IPA (key): /fʊk̚⁵ tʰiːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: hog4 cang5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hok tshâng
- Sinological IPA (key): /hok̚²⁻⁴ t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
- (Teochew)
Noun
福田
Proper noun
福田
- (～區) Futian (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
- (～鎮) Futian (a town in Wushan, Chongqing, China)
- an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 福田, Fukuda
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 福 | 田 |
| ふく Grade: 3 |
た > だ Grade: 1 |
| jūbakoyomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| (kyūjitai) |
Proper noun
福田 • (Fukuda)
- a surname