dao fu

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

Commonly seen on the square-shaped Chinese New Year decoration, the doufang.

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

Examples

• Danbooru post #7692318
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• Mangaka Kobayashi Motofumi and military writer Umemoto Hiroshi created fictional manga & novel stories titled "Happy Tiger", being inspired by a photo of the Dao Fu Tiger I.
• Prune Touri/Prune Tao-Li is a character from Armored Core ("1" and "Master of Arena") whose AC mecha has the name & emblem "Tou-Fuku/Dao-Fu (倒福号)".

See also

• Good Fortune Symbol
• Wikipedia: Fu (character)
• Wiktionary: 福
• Tag Group:Symbols

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