Chinese Fu Character - goodluck

by j4p4n - uploaded on December 30, 2011, 2:33 pm

This is the Chinese Character "Fu" (and yes, I know it is upside down!) let Wikipedia explain it:

The character Fu meaning "good fortune" or "happiness" ...

When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, Fu almost universally displayed upside-down. The reason 'why' is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese: the words for "upside-down" and "to arrive" are homophonous or nearly homophonous.

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