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  2. Fu (character) - Wikipedia

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    When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, fu is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese, the words for 倒; dào; 'upside-down' and 到; dào; 'to arrive' are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase 'upside-down fu ' sounds nearly identical to the phrase 'good luck ...

  3. The Lunar New Year Traditions and Superstitions, Explained - AOL

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    Upside-down fu characters: On Chinese New Year, you’ll commonly see a calligraphy character on a square of red paper, hung in a diamond shape. The character, 福 [fú], which means good luck, is ...

  4. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Stylized character Wealth Fo (佛) Chinese character Buddha Fu (福) Chinese character Upright prosperity/ good luck Upside down Stylized symbol prosperity/ good luck Lu (禄) Chinese character Stylized symbol Shou: Chinese character longevity Stylized symbol Shou with wan Wan Chinese character Ten thousand years Xi (double happiness)

  5. Fai chun - Wikipedia

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    Fai chun (traditional Chinese: 揮春; simplified Chinese: 挥春; pinyin: huīchūn) or chunlian (春聯; 春联; chūnlián) is a traditional decoration [1] that is frequently used during Chinese New Year. People put fai chun in doorways to create an optimistic festive atmosphere, since the phrases written on them refer to good luck and ...

  6. File:Chinese character Fu, written by Yicheng, picture2.jpg

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  7. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

  8. Radical 13 - Wikipedia

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    Radical 13 or radical down box (冂部), meaning upside-down box or wide, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .

  9. Traditional Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. [12] In the People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters. [13]