服務

简 服务 · 繁 服務
Mandarin · pinyin fú wù

Meanings

  1. to serve
  2. service
  3. Classifier: 項 xiàng
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服
fú · clothes; wear, dress
務
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务
wù · affairs, business; must, should
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2–4 · fu2 wu4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fuk6 mou6

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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable) service (Classifier: 項/项 m)
  2. (computing) service (function provided by one program or machine for another)

verb

  1. to serve; to work (for)

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