侍
to serve; to attend upon
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,414 U+4F8D
How 侍 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 寺 (phonetic, sì)
How to remember it
serve · Heisig RSH #2071
人 person + 寺 Buddhist temple
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 寺
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 寺 (sì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寺 sound component | sì | court, office; temple, monastery |
| 特 | tè | special, unique, distinguished |
| 持 | chí | to hold, to support, to sustain |
| 诗 | shī | poetry; poem, verse, ode |
| 恃 | shì | to trust, to rely on; to presume |
| 峙 | zhì | to pile, to stack; to stand tall |
| 痔 | zhì | piles, hemorrhoids |
Words containing 侍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侍应生 | shì yìng shēng | waiter; waitress |
| 侍卫官 | shì wèi guān | guard |
| 十常侍 | shí cháng shì | Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption |
| 侍从官 | shì cóng guān | aide-de-camp |
| 侍者 | shì zhě | attendant; waiter |
| 侍女 | shì nǚ | maid |
| 侍应 | shì yìng | waiter; waitress (abbr. for 侍應生|侍应生[shi4 ying4 sheng1]) |
| 侍立 | shì lì | to stand by in attendance |
| 服侍 | fú shi | to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also writ… |
| 侍卫 | shì wèi | Imperial bodyguard |
| 侍从 | shì cóng | to serve (an important personage); attendant; retainer |
| 伏侍 | fú shi | variant of 服侍[fu2 shi5] |
| 侍弄 | shì nòng | to look after; to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc); to repair |
| 侍候 | shì hòu | to serve; to wait upon |
| 侍奉 | shì fèng | to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs |
| 侍郎 | shì láng | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title … |
| 陪侍 | péi shì | to wait upon (older people); to accompany; attendant |
| 侍妾 | shì qiè | concubine |
| 妾侍 | qiè shì | maids and concubines |
| 媵侍 | yìng shì | concubine (old) |