Chinese symbol for “welfare”
福利
fú lì
benefit (provided by an employer or organization); (social) welfare
The closest CC-CEDICT match for welfare is 福利 (fú lì), defined as: benefit (provided by an employer or organization); (social) welfare.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “welfare”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 福利.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 幸福 | xìng fú | happiness; happy |
| 祝福 | zhù fú | blessings; to wish sb well |
| 福音 | fú yīn | good news; glad tidings |
| 福田 | fú tián | field for growing happiness; domain for practices leading to enlightenment (Buddhism) |
| 造福 | zào fú | to benefit (e.g. the people) |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
| 权利 (權利) | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
| 利益 | lì yì | benefit; (in sb's) interest |
See also: Japanese symbol for “welfare”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.