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服

服

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

服 (radical 74 月+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月尸中水 (BSLE), four-corner 77247, composition ⿰月𠬝)

References

  • KangXi: page 505, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14345
  • Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2053, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+670D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 服
alt. forms 𦨈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 服
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (服) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
菔 *bɯːɡ, *bɯɡ
服 *bɯɡ
鵩 *bɯɡ
箙 *bɯɡ
棴 *bɯɡ, *smoːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bɯɡ) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 𠬝 ‎(“to subdue”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 服
Mandarin Beijing /fu³⁵/
Harbin /fu²⁴/
Tianjin /fu⁴⁵/
Jinan /fu⁴²/
Qingdao /fu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fu²⁴/
Xi'an /fu²⁴/
Xining /fv̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /fu¹³/
Lanzhou /fu⁵³/
Ürümqi /fu⁵¹/
Wuhan /fu²¹³/
Chengdu /fu³¹/
Guiyang /fu²¹/
Kunming /fu³¹/
Nanjing /fuʔ⁵/
Hefei /fəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /fəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /xuʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /fəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /voʔ¹/
Suzhou /voʔ³/
Hangzhou /voʔ²/
Wenzhou /fu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /fu²²/
Tunxi /fu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fu²⁴/
Xiangtan /ɸu²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /fuʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /fuk̚⁵/
Taoyuan /fuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fok̚²/
Nanning /fuk̚²²/
Hong Kong /fuk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xu⁴⁴/ 舒～
/xu²⁴/ ～從
Shantou (Min Nan) /hok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fok̚³/
Rime
Character 服
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 房六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /biuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /bĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 服 服 服 服
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fú fú fú fù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjuwk › ‹ bjuwk › ‹ bjuwk › ‹ bjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ək/ /*[b]ək/ /*[b]ək/ /*[b]əʔ/
English quiver (n.) garment; wear (v.) subdue, submit box of a carriage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 服
Reading # 1/1
No. 3366
Phonetic
component		 服
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 伏
Old
Chinese		 /*bɯɡ/

Definitions

服

  1. clothes
  2. mourning dress
  3. to wear; to put on
  4. to take; to eat
    服藥 / 服药  ―  fúyào  ―  to take medicine
  5. to serve
  6. to submit; to agree; to accept; to obey
  7. to convince; to persuade
  8. to be accustomed to
  9. Classifier for doses for TCM regimens.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

服

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. clothing
  2. an amount equal to one swallow (act of swallowing)
  3. obey

Readings

Counter

服 ‎(hiragana ふく, romaji -fuku)

  1. an amount equal to one swallow:
    1. doses of medicine
    2. gulps of tea
    3. puffs of tobacco

Noun

服 ‎(hiragana ふく, romaji fuku)

  1. clothes

Derived terms

Synonyms

Suffix

服 ‎(hiragana ふく, romaji -fuku)

  1. clothes

Korean

Hanja

服 • ‎(bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

服 (phục)

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