笑う門には福来る

Japanese
Kanji in this term
笑 門 福 来
わら
Grade: 4		 かど
Grade: 2		 ふく
Grade: 3		 きた
Grade: 2
kun’yomi on’yomi kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
笑う門には福來る (kyūjitai)
笑う門には福来たる
笑門には福来たる

Alternative forms
  • (Sinicized?) 笑門来福(しょうもんらいふく) (shōmonraifuku), 笑門福来(しょうもんふくらい) (shōmonfukurai)

Etymology

Phrase consisting of 笑う (warau, “to laugh”) + 門 (kado, “gate, door; house, household; family”) + に (ni, directional particle) + は (wa, topic and contrastive particle) + 福 (fuku, “good fortune”) + 来る (kitaru, “to come along, to make its way to”).[1][2][3]

First cited to a text from the late 1500s.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɰᵝa̠ɾa̠ɯ̟ᵝ ka̠do̞ ɲ̟i ɰᵝa̠ ɸɯ̟ᵝkɯ̟ᵝ kʲita̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Idiom

笑(わら)う門(かど)には福(ふく)来(きた)る • (warau kado ni wa fuku kitaru) 

  1. [from late 1500s] good fortune comes to the homes of those who smile

References
  1. “笑門には福来たる”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “笑う門には福来る”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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