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服

fú · fu/fù · fu

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HSK 6

Meaning

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fú 服

  1. clothes
  2. dress
  3. garment
  4. to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)
  5. to obey
  6. to be convinced (by an argument)
  7. to convince
  8. to admire
  9. to acclimatize
  10. to take (medicine)
  11. mourning clothes
  12. to wear mourning clothes

fù 服

  1. classifier for medicine: dose
  2. Taiwan pr. [fú]

In a sentence

2 examples
01

汤(tāng)姆(mǔ)正(zhèng)在(zài)服(fú)无(wú)期(qī)徒(tú)刑(xíng)。

Tom is serving a life sentence.

Tatoeba: Chinese by slo_oth · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

这(zhè)药(yào)要(yào)每(měi)三(sān)个(gè)小(xiǎo)时(shí)服(fú)一(yí)次(cì)。

This medicine should be taken every three hours.

Tatoeba: Chinese by nickyeow · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

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