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幸福

xìng fú

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

幸福 (xìng fú) means "happiness". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 幸福 means

1. happiness
2. happy
3. blessed

The characters in 幸福

• 幸xìngtrusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit
• 福fúgood fortune; happiness; luck

Example sentences

• 你幸福吗？
  Are you happy?
• 我很幸福。
  I'm very happy.
• 当幸福敲门时
  Dāng xìngfú qiāomén shí
  When happiness comes knocking at your door.
• 叩响幸福之门
  Kòu xiǎng xìngfú zhī mén
  Knock on the door of happiness.
• 她让我幸福。
  She makes me happy.
• 什幺是幸福？
  What is happiness?

Words starting with 幸福

• 幸福学xìng fú xuéeudemonics; hedonomics

Sounds the same

Read xìng fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 性福(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福

Where 幸福 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Positive emotions & feelings (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìng fú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.