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Happiness Luck Fortune Good Blessedness Heisig 幸 コウ

Kanji
Onyomi コウ
Kunyomi さいわ.い、さち、しあわ.せ
Nanori こ, さき, さし, さっ, とも, ひろ, みゆき, ゆ, ゆき, よし
English happiness, blessing, fortune
Examples 不幸(ふこう): unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; disaster; accident; death
幸せ(しあわせ): happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
幸福(こうふく): happiness; blessedness; joy; well-being
幸い(さいわい): (1) happiness; blessedness; luck; fortune; felicity (2) luckily; fortunately
幸運(こううん): good luck; fortune
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 3
Frequency 786
Components 土: soil; earth; ground; Turkey
干: dry; parch
Number of Strokes 8
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 51
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading かん・いちじゅう・ほす・ひる・たてかん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 象形 Pictographic
Keyword happiness
Koohii Story 1 Happiness adds a bit (or ten) of spice to your life.
Koohii Story 2 This is one of those rare occasions when I forgo Heisig for other methods. 「幸せから一本取ると辛い」 -- if you take but one stroke away from happiness, you get painfulness. (oh well, Heisig used similar one for 百).

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade3, kanjifreq751-1000, kanji_emotion.sense_emotion

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