服
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clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #374 U+670D
How 服 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 卩 putting on 又 a coat 月
How to remember it
apparel · Heisig RSH #1103
flesh + stamp + crotch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 服 as their sound component
These characters all use 服 (fú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 服 sound component | fú | clothes; to dress, to wear; to take medicine |
| 菔 | fú | turnip |
Words containing 服
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中山服 | zhōng shān fú | Chinese tunic suit; Mao jacket; CL:件[jian4] |
| 马服子 | Mǎ Fú zǐ | Ma Fuzi (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国[Zhao4 Guo2], who famously led an army of … |
| 不服气 | bù fú qì | unwilling to concede; defiant; indignant; to find it galling |
| 水手服 | shuǐ shǒu fú | Japanese sailor-style schoolgirl uniform; sailor fuku |
| 不服水土 | bù fú shuǐ tǔ | (of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place; not acclimatized |
| 水土不服 | shuǐ tǔ bù fú | not acclimatized |
| 不服 | bù fú | not to accept sth; to want to have sth overruled or changed; to refuse to obey or comply; … |
| 工作服 | gōng zuò fú | work clothes; workwear |
| 国服 | guó fú | national dress; traditional attire; (Internet gaming) domestic gaming server; (esp.) Chine… |
| 心服 | xīn fú | to accept wholeheartedly; to embrace; to be won over |
| 运动服 | yùn dòng fú | sportswear |
| 口服心服 | kǒu fú xīn fú | see 心服口服[xin1 fu2 kou3 fu2] |
| 心服口服 | xīn fú kǒu fú | (idiom) to accept wholeheartedly; to embrace; to be won over |
| 服气 | fú qì | to be convinced; to accept |
| 克服 | kè fú | (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure |
| 西服 | xī fú | suit; Western-style clothes (historical usage) |
| 为人民服务 | wèi rén mín fú wù | Serve the People!, CCP political slogan |
| 服法 | fú fǎ | to submit to the law; to obey the law; administration method (of medicine) |
| 法服 | fǎ fú | see 法衣[fa3 yi1] |
| 口服 | kǒu fú | to take medicine orally; oral (contraceptive etc); to say that one is convinced |