服

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 卩 (“kneeling person”) + 又 (“spread hands”) + ⺼ (“person's back”) = a kneeling person attending another person's back.

Han character

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

1. clothes
2. wear, dress

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

服 (jyutping fuk6, Yale fuk6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

服 (POJ fu̍k, Guangdong fuk⁸, Hagfa Pinyim fug6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

服 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: きる (kiru), きもの (kimono), したがう (shitagau)

Counter

服 (hiragana ふく, romaji -fuku)

1. doses of medicine
2. gulps of tea
3. puffs of tobacco

Noun

服 (hiragana ふく, romaji fuku)

1. clothes

Suffix

服 (hiragana ふく, romaji fuku)

1. clothes

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

服 (pinyin bì (bi4), fú (fu2), fù (fu4), Wade-Giles pi⁴, fu², fu⁴)

Compounds

• 衣服

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Min Nan

Hanzi

服 (POJ ho̍k)

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

服 (phục)