tốt phúc
Definition
- Adjective (archaic):
- Blessed with good fortune / Fortunate: Describes a person who is inherently favored by luck or destiny, enjoying happiness and prosperity. This term emphasizes a state of being graced by "phúc" (blessing, good fortune), often seen as innate or accumulated from virtuous deeds.
- Auspicious: Can describe a situation or condition that brings or indicates good luck and happiness.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Người tốt phúc thường gặp nhiều may mắn. (A person blessed with good fortune often encounters much luck.)
- Gia đình ấy rất tốt phúc, con cháu đều thành đạt. (That family is very fortunate; all their children and grandchildren are successful.)
- Đó là một dấu hiệu tốt phúc. (That is an auspicious sign.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is considered literary and archaic. In modern Vietnamese, phrases like "có phúc," "phúc đức," or "may mắn" are more commonly used to express similar ideas.
- It often carries a connotation of fortune derived from moral integrity or ancestral virtue, not merely random luck.
Variants and Related Words
- Phúc (n): blessing, happiness, good fortune. The core element of "tốt phúc."
- Phúc đức (n): virtue and the good fortune it brings.
- Phúc hậu (adj): benevolent, kind-hearted (often describing a person's appearance or nature that suggests good fortune).
- Hạnh phúc (n/adj): happiness, happy.
Synonyms
- Fortunate: Having good luck.
- Blessed: Endowed with divine favor or good fortune.
- Auspicious: Conducive to success; favorable.
Related Idioms
- Phúc đức tại mẫu: The mother's virtue determines the children's fortune. Highlights the belief that a mother's goodness brings blessings to her offspring.
- Ăn ở có phúc: To live virtuously, thereby accumulating blessings. Implies that good fortune is a result of good deeds.
- Phúc như đông hải: Fortune as vast as the Eastern Sea. A saying to describe immense, overflowing good fortune.