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Good Fortune – 福 – fú
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Good Fortune – 福 – fú

chinese-new-year-symbols-Fu_The Fú Character may be one of the most popular Chinese New Year symbols for modern Chinese people. The Chinese character Fú means fortune.

It can be posted either in normal position or upside down like in the above picture. Why post it upside down? In Chinese language, the character “upside down” is pronounced exactly the same as the character “arrive”. So this is a homophone rhetoric to mean “Fortune arrives”.


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