服 (fú)
Clothes; to serve; to take (medicine).
How 服 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- Traditional
- 服
- Simplified
- 服 (unchanged)
Components
- 月 moon
- 卩 seal
- 又 right hand
服 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- fú
- clothes; dress; garment; to serve
- fù
- dose (measure word for medicine)
Common words using 服
- 服務 fúwù
- to serve; service; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- 舒服 shūfu
- comfortable; feeling well
- 衣服 yīfu
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- 佩服 pèifú
- to admire
- 克服 kèfú
- (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with
- 制服 zhìfú
- to subdue; to check; to bring under control
- 客服 kèfú
- customer service
- 屈服 qūfú
- to surrender; to yield
- 征服 zhēngfú
- to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish
- 微服 wēifú
- in plain clothes (of royalty)
- 折服 zhéfú
- to convince; to subdue; to be convinced
- 服務員 fúwùyuán
- waiter; waitress; attendant
服 in a sentence
這件衣服穿起來很舒服。
Zhè jiàn yīfú chuān qǐlái hěn shūfú.
“This piece of clothing is very comfortable to wear.”
How common is 服?
服 is the 365th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 69% of all running text.
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