福田

Chinese

		good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname	field; farm
simp. and trad. (福田)		福	田

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit पुण्यक्षेत्र (puṇyakṣetra), from पुण्य (puṇya, “merit”) +‎ क्षेत्र (kṣetra, “field”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fútián

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ tin⁴
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): hog⁴ cang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fútián
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fútián
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-tʻien²
    • Yale: fú-tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwutyan
    • Palladius: футянь (futjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk¹ tin⁴
    • Yale: fūk tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵ tʰiːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hog⁴ cang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hok tshâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hok̚²⁻⁴ t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

福田

1. (Buddhism) field for growing happiness; domain for practices leading to enlightenment

Proper noun

福田

1. (～區) Futian (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
2. (～鎮) Futian (a town in Wushan, Chongqing, China)
3. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 福田, Fukuda

Japanese

Kanji in this term
福	田
ふく Grade: 3	た > だ Grade: 1
jūbakoyomi

Alternative spelling
福田 (kyūjitai)

Proper noun

福(ふく)田(だ) • (Fukuda) 

1. a surname