服

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		服
alternative forms		𦨈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 服
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／形声, OC *bɯɡ) : semantic 舟 + phonetic 𠬝 (, “to subdue”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): fú, fù (fu², fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ, ㄈㄨˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): fu²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fu̍k
• Northern Min (KCR): hū / hŭ
• Eastern Min (BUC): hŭk / hók
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ho̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hog⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵voq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/

Note:

• fú - usual pronunciation;
• fù - only in the sense “dose”.

• (Chengdu)
  • Sichuanese Pinyin: fu²
  • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fuk⁶
    • Yale: fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: fug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /fuk̚⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hū / hŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/, /xu²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭk / hók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huʔ⁵/, /houʔ²⁴/

Note:

• hŭk - literary;
• hók - vernacular (“dose”).

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hog⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ho̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hok̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵voq
    • MiniDict: voh^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²voq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /voʔ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 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 (Hokkien)	/hɔk̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/huʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xu⁴⁴/ 舒～ /xu²⁴/ ～從
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hok̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/fok̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuwk

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
Baxter	bjuwk
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ək/, /*[b]əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯɡ/

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

(deprecated template usage) 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

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

服

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu); ぶく (buku)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū); ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: まつらう (matsurau, 服う); まつろう (matsurou, 服う)
• Nanori: はつ (hatsu); はら (hara)

Counter

服(ふく) • (-fuku) 

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

Noun

服(ふく) • (fuku) 

1. clothes

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 衣(い)服(ふく) (ifuku): clothes, apparel, garments
• 服(ふく)装(そう) (fukusō): clothing, how one is dressed, one's costume

Synonyms

• (clothing): 衣(い)類(るい) (irui)

Suffix

服(ふく) • (-fuku) 

1. clothes

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Korean

Hanja

服 • (bok)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 복
  • Name (hangeul): 옷
    

1. Clothes, Clothing

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 服 (phục)

1. Clothes/clothing
2. to be submisive, to serve
3. to admire, to esteem