fuku
noun
fuku is a noun meaning “A Japanese-style school uniform, especially a sailor fuku” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-K-U, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fuku is fukus.
What does fuku mean?
noun
- 1
A Japanese-style school uniform, especially a sailor fuku.
Mankichi attends a middle school in a small village, which has gakuran for guys and fukus for girls. - https://official-tropes.fandom.com/wiki/Sailor_Fuku
- 2
A costume, as of an anime character.
The moisture wicking is excellent, which is great for wearing fuku to hot Texas summer cons. - https://thegeekyseamstress.com/2019/06/14/costume-notes-sailor-pluto-3-0/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fuku?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fuku.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fuku
- fukus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fuku?
Fuku appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fuku come from?
From Japanese 服 (fuku, “clothes”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).