(fú) - clothes; to serve; to obey (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
fúTraditional: 服
Translation
clothes; to serve; to obey (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A character combining 月 (the flesh or body element) with 𠬝 (a hand controlling a kneeling figure), giving senses of submitting and serving, and by extension clothing worn on the body.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 月 (body element) + 𠬝 (a hand over a kneeling figure, submission)
Stroke order
服
Examples
。
Her clothes are very pretty.
。
I'm not feeling very well today.
？
How much is this piece of clothing?
。
She's buying clothes at the shop.
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This medicine is hard to swallow.
服 (fú) is a bound morpheme covering clothes, service and obedience, found in 衣服 (yī fu) "clothes" and 舒服 (shū fu) "comfortable".
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 服.
Used in
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