服

Translingual

Stroke order

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		服

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú, fù, bì (fu², fu⁴, bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ, ㄈㄨˋ, ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fu̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): ho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk⁶
    • Yale: fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu̍k
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fug6
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (服, reconstructed)
Character (服), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 房六切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɨuk̚/	/bʱi̯uk̚/	/biuk̚/	/biuk̚/	/buwk̚/	/bĭuk̚/	/biuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (服, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
服								fú								‹ bjuwk ›								/*[b]ək/								quiver (n.)
服								fú								‹ bjuwk ›								/*[b]ək/								garment; wear (v.)
服								fú								‹ bjuwk ›								/*[b]ək/								subdue, submit
服								fù								‹ bjuwX ›								/*[b]əʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
服					3366					服					職					0					伏					/*bɯɡ/

Compounds

• 衣服

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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

Derived terms

• 衣服 (いふく, ifuku)
• 服装 (ふくそう, fukusō)

See also

• 衣類 (いるい, irui)

Suffix

服 (hiragana ふく, romaji -fuku)

1. clothes

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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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