服 (fú): meaning and stroke order
服 (fú) means clothes, dress, garment, to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc), to obey.
服
- Simplified
- 服
- Traditional
- 服 (same form)
- Pinyin
- fú · fù
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Stroke order of 服
服
- fú clothes; dress
- fù classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 服
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fú
- 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
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fù
- classifier for medicine: dose
- Taiwan pr. [fu2]
Radical and structure
- 服
- Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 8 strokes · 月 on the left, 𠬝 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 服
- 服务 fú wù to serve; service
- 服气 fú qì to be convinced; to accept
- 衣服 yī fu clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- 校服 xiào fú school uniform
- 舒服 shū fu comfortable; feeling well
- 不服气 bù fú qì unwilling to concede; defiant
- 服务员 fú wù yuán waiter; waitress
- 羽绒服 yǔ róng fú down-filled garment
- 说服 shuō fú to persuade; to convince
服 in our stories
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在今天的电影和动画里，哪吒常常被画成一个不服命运的叛逆少年，这也让他成为最受年轻人欢迎的神话人物之一。
zài jīntiān de diànyǐng hé dònghuà lǐ Nézhā chángcháng bèi huà chéng yí gè bù fú mìngyùn de pànnì shàonián zhè yě ràng tā chéngwéi zuì shòu niánqīngrén huānyíng de shénhuà rénwù zhīyī
In today's films and cartoons Nezha is often drawn as a rebellious teenager who refuses to accept his fate, which has made him one of the mythological figures young people love most.
From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 服
- Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).