What is the meaning of these two Chinese characters?

Magpie · Post by **Magpie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:07 am

I am interested to know the meaning of the characters on this pair of cufflinks, please.

This post is the same as my last. I was unable to edit it so created another to add a larger picture without mistakes this time, I hope.

ripper159 · Post by **ripper159** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:44 pm

福 Good Fortune
寿 Longevity

there is still one word that often comes with the two ones above. it is 禄. people usually say 福禄寿 (fu lu shou)
禄 Prosperity

Magpie · Post by **Magpie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:32 pm

Thank you very much for that information. My web browser doesn't seem to display all your characters no matter which encoding I use. Am I correct in assuming that the cufflink on the left has the character for 'good fortune' and the one on the right for 'longevity'?

ripper159 · Post by **ripper159** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:07 pm

that's right. the left one is good fortune; the right one is longevity