Taxonomy of meanings for 祿:　　

  • 祿 lù (OC: b-rooɡ MC: luk) 盧谷切 入 廣韻：【俸也善也福也録也又姓紂子禄父之後盧谷切四十七 】
    • SALARY
      • nabsocialpower to award emoluments, power over official apanages
      • nadN(minister) with emoluments, salaried, enjoying the benefits of a formal salary; (N=place:) carrying emoluments
      • nmsalary, official stipend, public emoluments, public remuneration; salary levels
      • nmfigurativesalary
      • vichangeget to enjoy stable emoluments
      • vimiddle voiceenjoy stable emoluments
      • vtoNcausativecause to have stable official emoluments
      • vtoNhave N as one's emolumentLZ
      • what one gets emoluments for> RANK
        • vtoNpassivebe given a salaried position or jobCH
      • what one buys for salary> FOOD
        • exocentric: belonging to an endowed official> CITY
          • the good fortune of having an endowment> LUCK
            • nabeventblessings (from Heaven); good fortune
            • nab{PRED}be something that spells good fortune; augure well.CH
          • survive on> LIVE
            • nfigurativelife
        • =錄
          • ARISTOCRATS OF SHANG

            Additional information about 祿

            說文解字:

              Criteria
            • LUCK

              1. The dominant general word for good fortune is fú 福 (ant. huò 禍 "misfortune"), and the dominant general word for good luck is xìng 幸 (ant. yāng 殃 "misfortune").

              2. Lù 祿 and the rare xiū 休 / 庥 are elevated and archaising words referring to blessings from Heaven.

              3. Zuò 祚 is a very elevated and archaising word referring to blessings from Heaven as given to states or great clans and the like.

              4. Yù 裕 (ant. fá 乏 "shortage sent down by Heaven") is an elevated word referring to abundant blessings from Heaven.

            • SALARY

              1. The general word for apanages, emoluments or salaries received by any person of high status is lù 祿.

              2. Gǔ 穀 refers specifically to salary in the form of grain, which was the most current form of payment, and the word sometimes refers in a generalised way to salaries of any kind.

              3. Fèng 奉／俸 is a formal and polite word for a salary, and the term became current from Han times onwards.

              Word relations
            • Object: (SALARY)干/SEEK Gān 干 refers to the abstract pursuit of aims in life.
            • Contrast: (SALARY)爵/RANK Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank.
            • Assoc: (SALARY)官/OFFICE The standard and very current general word for any elevated bureaucratic office, civil or military, is guān 官 (the original meaning of which refers to the building housing the office-holders office).
            • Assoc: (SALARY)爵/RANK Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank.
            • Assoc: (LUCK)福/LUCK The dominant general word for good fortune is fú 福 (ant. huò 禍 "misfortune"), and the dominant general word for good luck is xìng 幸 (ant. yāng 殃 "misfortune").
            • Assoc: (SALARY)賞/REWARD The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish").
            • Oppos: (SALARY)德/VIRTUE The current general term for salient features and principles of charismatic moral integrity and generosity is dé 德, when used as a term of ethical evalutation; but this word has many other philosophically important meanings.
            • Oppos: (SALARY)身/PERSON Shēn 身 regularly refers to the embodied person, as something to be cultivated, and as something to be morally careful about, but the word is originally widely used to refer to the physical body as such being at times hard to distinguish from the figurative use discussed in this group. The word is very often reflexive.
            • Oppos: (SALARY)道/METHOD Dào 道 is a way of being, of functioning, as well as a way of doing things, and this Way may be either exoteric or esoteric.