Character Details
| waiter; waitress | Ascii: — | w650 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 服务员 | fúwùyuán | foowh-oo-yoo:en | 2+4+2 | 店 (广 shelter radical + 占 occupy) + 员 (口 mouth + 贝 shell) | 服务员 link | ||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Waiter, could I get the bill, please? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; noun | 服 (月 body + 卩 kneel) + 务 (力 power + 夂 go) + 员 (mouth + shell) | ||||||||||
| Body‑service (服) with effort (务) by a staff member (员) — waiter/waitress. | |||||||||||