Does 'yuki' really mean happiness?


Besides the obvious 'snow', someone listed the name Yuki on a name website as
also meaning happiness, blessing, or good fortune using the characters 幸き.
Dictionaries list that 幸 can become こ / さき / さし / さっ / とも / ひろ / みゆき / ゆ / ゆき
/ よし. Yu and Yuki are listed at the end, but is it accurate to say that this
name means happiness?




> Does 'yuki' really mean happiness?

I feel like this is a loaded question, so let's break it down.

  * The character 幸 means "happiness".

  * If the name ゆき is written using this kanji, then it also means "happiness". 

  * ゆき by itself does not necessarily mean anything—ゆ and き simply represent sounds.

    * However, context could easily provide a meaning to those sounds, and ゆき as a word has several different meanings.
    * If you knew someone named 'Yuki' who spelled it simply ゆき (or possibly ユキ), it might not have any meaning.
  * If you see someone's name written as 幸, [you'd be wise not to assume it's read as ゆき (or anything else)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5532).




> Does 'yuki' really mean happiness?

I feel like this is a loaded question, so let's break it down.

  * The character 幸 means "happiness".

  * If the name ゆき is written using this kanji, then it also means "happiness". 

  * ゆき by itself does not necessarily mean anything—ゆ and き simply represent sounds.

    * However, context could easily provide a meaning to those sounds, and ゆき as a word has several different meanings.
    * If you knew someone named 'Yuki' who spelled it simply ゆき (or possibly ユキ), it might not have any meaning.
  * If you see someone's name written as 幸, [you'd be wise not to assume it's read as ゆき (or anything else)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5532).

