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V1 A symbol used as a good-luck charm in Chinese-speaking countries. It consists of the character 福 being placed upside down.

倒 ([i]dao[/i], literally "upside-down") 福 ([i]fu[/i], "fortune" or "good luck") is a homonym of 到福 ("fortune arrives") in Chinese (and most dialects of Chinese).

* Mangaka [[Kobayashi Motofumi]] and military writer "Umemoto Hiroshi":[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E6%9C%AC%E5%BC%98] created fictional "manga":[http://myanimelist.net/manga/76189/Happy_Tiger] & "novel":[https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/search?field-keywords=%E6%A2%85%E6%9C%AC%E5%BC%98+%E3%83%8F%E3%83%83%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E6%88%A6%E8%A8%98] stories titled "[[Happy Tiger]]", being inspired by "a photo of the Dao Fu Tiger I":[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Gutscher-001-03,_Russland,_SS-Division_%22Das_Reich%22,_Tiger-Panzer.jpg].
* [[Prune Touri]]/Prune Tao-Li is a character from [[Armored Core]] ("1" and "[[armored_core:_master_of_arena|Master of Arena]]") whose AC mecha has the name & emblem "Tou-Fuku/Dao-Fu (倒福号)".

h4.See also

* "Wikipedia: Fu (character)":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_(character)]
* "Wiktionary: 福":[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F]
* [[Chinese New Year]]
* [[Tag Group:Symbols]]
Updated by bot Sun, Sep 18 '22, 02:56