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Kanji Detail for 禄 - "salary"

禄

  • Meaning

    禄 means "salary." Also associated with fortune, blessing.

    1. Fortune - Happiness bestowed by heaven.

    2. Blessing - Divine grace and favor.

    3. Salary - Official wages; stipend.

  • Words using 禄

    • 元禄 げんろく Listen Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)

  • Origin of 禄

    The altar radical 礻 beside 彔, water drawn from a well, lending the reading roku: the steady salary granted from above, like water from a spring. Good fortune as reliable provision — the samurai's stipend.

    How to remember it: The altar 礻 pouring out a steady stream 彔 — fortune that arrives on schedule: the stipend, the blessing.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 禄

    • Verified meaning: salary
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ふち, よし, ろく)
    • Also carries these associations: fortune, blessing

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 禄

    Given names 禄(ろく)Listen

    Surnames 禄(ふち)Listen 禄(よし)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fief; allowance; pension; grant; happiness

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    blessing, happiness, prosperity

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    good fortune; official salary

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    blessing, happiness, prosperity

  • Onyomi

    tip

    roku(ロク) ロク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    fuchi(ふち) ふち

    saiwa.i(さいわ-い) さいわ-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    示 礻 (shimesu・shimesuhen)

  • Related Keywords

    fortune blessing salary stipend prosperity income pay earnings compensation reward emolument allowance divine grace luck happiness remuneration endowment benefit

Sentences including 禄

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