一切經音義 57.83

57.83

世福 ('worldly blessings'; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 風 + 伏. The Liji says: "'Fu' (福) means completeness." The Taixuanjing says: "What human nature delights in is called 'fu'." The commentary on the Mao Shijing says: "Ranks and mandates constitute 'fu'." The Shuowen says it is formed from [the radical] 示 with 畐—pronounced 逼—as the phonetic component. The sūtra writes it with 示 as [示*(二/口/子)]; searching through character dictionaries yields no phonetic or semantic explanation for it anywhere).