福相

Chinese

		good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname	each other; appearance; portrait each other; appearance; portrait; picture; one another; mutually
simp. and trad. (福相)		福	相

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fúxiàng

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ soeng³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hok-siòng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fúxiàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fúsiàng
  - Wade–Giles: fu²-hsiang⁴
  - Yale: fú-syàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwushianq
  - Palladius: фусян (fusjan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fuk¹ soeng³
  - Yale: fūk seung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ soeng³
  - Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ sêng³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵ sœːŋ³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok-siòng
  - Tâi-lô: hok-siòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoksioxng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ¹¹/

Noun

福相

face showing good fortune

Antonyms

窮相／穷相 (qióngxiàng)

Pronunciation 2

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hok-siòng / hok-siàng

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok-siòng
  - Tâi-lô: hok-siòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoksioxng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok-siàng
  - Tâi-lô: hok-siàng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoksiaxng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁵ siaŋ²¹/

Verb

福相

(Mainland China Hokkien, euphemistic) to put on weight; to grow stout (of middle-aged people and older)

Synonyms

生肉 (saang¹ juk⁶) (Cantonese)
發福／发福 (fāfú) (euphemistic, usually said of old people)
發胖／发胖 (fāpàng)
變胖／变胖 (biànpàng)
長胖／长胖 (zhǎngpàng)

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