幸 – happiness, blessing, fortune

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The kanji 幸 means happiness, blessing, fortune. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コウ (kou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is さいわ.い、さち、しあわ.せ (saiwai, sachi, shiawase). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 干 (no. 51).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コウ	kou
Kun’yomi	さいわ.い	saiwai
Kun’yomi	さち	sachi
Kun’yomi	しあわ.せ	shiawase

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 干 (Kangxi radical 51). Components: 十・辛・立・亠.

Words using 幸

幸せしあわせhappiness幸運こううんgood luck幸福こうふくhappiness幸いさいわいhappiness不幸ふこうunhappiness

Example sentences

金持ちが幸せとは限らない。

The rich are not always happy.

Tatoeba #179683

私達は幸運に小躍りして喜んだ。

We exulted at our good fortune.

Tatoeba #151543

金持ちが必ずしも幸福とは限らない。

The rich are not always happy.

Tatoeba #179680

Kanji with the same radical

年平幹干

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