服

Stroke order

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

• 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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯɡ) : semantic 凡 (“tray”) + phonetic 𠬝 (*ək, “to subdue”) – to serve. 凡 here has been corrupted into 舟 and subsequently 月.

服

1. ^⁜ clothes; garment; dress

   衣服  ―  yīfú  ―  clothes

   校服  ―  xiàofú  ―  school uniform

2. mourning dress; mourning apparel
3. to wear; to put on (clothes)
4. to take; to eat

   服藥／服药  ―  fúyào  ―  to take medicine

   服用  ―  fúyòng  ―  to take medicine

   服毒  ―  fúdú  ―  to take poison

   每日服三次。  ―  Měirì fú sān cì.  ―  Take it three times a day.

5. to serve; to be engaged in

   客服  ―  kèfú  ―  customer service

   服兵役  ―  fú bīngyì  ―  to serve in the army

   服刑  ―  fúxíng  ―  to serve a sentence

6. to submit; to agree; to accept; to obey; to be convinced

   不服  ―  bùfú  ―  to refuse to accept

7. Used to express defeat even though one is not convinced of the opposing arguments

   服了你了。  ―  Fú le nǐ le.  ―  You win.

   我真係服咗你。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我真系服咗你。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ zan¹ hai⁶ fuk⁶ zo² nei⁵.

   Come on, I surrender.

8. to convince; to persuade
9. to be accustomed to
10. (gaming) Short for 伺服器 (sìfúqì); server
11. (historical) inner pair of horses among the four that pull an imperial carriage
12. Classifier for doses for TCM regimens.
13. a surname: Fu

• (to obey):

• “服”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	服
Kyūjitai [1]	服󠄁 服+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	服󠄃 服+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

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

From Middle Chinese 服 (MC bjuwk); compare Mandarin 服 (fú, fù):

• Go-on: ぶく (buku)
• Kan-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese; compare Mandarin 服 (fù):

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan’yō-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: まつらう (matsurau, 服う)、まつろう (matsurou, 服う)^{←まつろふ (maturofu, 服ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: こと (koto)、はつ (hatsu)、はとり (hatori)、はら (hara)、もと (moto)、ゆき (yuki)、よ (yo)

• (Tokyo) ふく (Odaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

服(ふく) • (-fuku) 

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

服(ふく) • (fuku) 

1. clothes

• (clothing): 衣(い)類(るい) (irui)

服(ふく) • (-fuku) 

1. clothes

服 (eumhun 옷 복 (ot bok))

1. hanja form^? of 복 (“clothes, clothing”)

• 한복 (韓服, hanbok, “hanbok”)
• 제복 (制服, jebok, “uniform”)
• 양복 (洋服, yangbok, “suit”)
• 수영복 (水泳服, suyeongbok, “swimsuit”)
• 운동복 (運動服, undongbok, “sportswear”)

服: Hán Nôm readings: phục^[1]

1. (only in compounds) clothing, clothes
2. to submit, to serve, to obey
3. to admire, to esteem