Character Details
| serve (to) | Ascii: 20146 | w890 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 服 | fú | foowh | 2 | 月 (flesh) + 卩 (seal) + 又 (hand) → clothes; serve | 服 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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It's customary to cover the flesh with clothing apparel, but some designs are so outrageous they're not bigger than a stamp that just covers your crotch. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Yes. She has bought quite a few clothes | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 53 - 羊 | yáng | brush | sheep | sheep head | 羊 美 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 月 (flesh) + 卩 (seal) + 又 (hand) → clothes; serve | 月 (semantic: body) | 卩 (phonetic origin) | phonetic from 卩 | ||||||||