Dictionary › 福利

福利

fú lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

福利 (fú lì) means "welfare, benefits". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 福利 means

1. material benefit
2. benefit in kind
3. (social) welfare

The characters in 福利

• 福fúgood fortune; happiness; luck
• 利lìsharp; favorable; advantage

Example sentences

• 他在福利办事处上班。
  Tā zài fúlì bànshìchù shàngbān.
  He works at the welfare office.
• 法国是一个福利国家，但它却不再能够负担得起了。
  Fǎguó shì yī gè fúlì guójiā, dàn tā què bù zài nénggòu fùdān de qǐ le.
  France is running a welfare state it can no longer afford.
• 例如，中国的大众运输毫无疑问地优于英国，但英国的公共福利可能比中国的好。
  Lìrú, Zhōngguó de dàzhòngyùnshū háowúyíwèn de yōuyú Yīngguó, dàn Yīngguó de gōnggòng fúlì kěnéng bǐ Zhōngguó de hǎo.
  For example, China's public transport is without a doubt better than the UK's, but the UK's public welfare may be better than China's.

Words starting with 福利

• 福利院fú lì yuànwelfare agency
• 福利品fú lì pǐnreconditioned or showroom item
• 福利事业fú lì shì yèwelfare services

Sounds the same

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

• 浮利mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame
• 浮力buoyancy

Where 福利 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fèng–fǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fú lì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.