福
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#682 most
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surname Fu
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
福 first meant 'wealth, honor, longevity'. 礻 ancestral tablet is the picture part, and 畐 fú supplies the sound. People used tablets to ask for good fortune, so the sense grew to 'luck, good fortune'.
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