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服

Mandarin · pinyin fú#

clothes
dress
garment
to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)
to obey
to be convinced (by an argument)
to convince
to admire
to acclimatize
to take (medicine)
mourning clothes
to wear mourning clothes

Mandarin · pinyin fù#

classifier for medicine: dose
Taiwan pr. fú

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服: fú · clothes; wear, dress

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) clothes; garment; dress
mourning dress; mourning apparel
to wear; to put on (clothes)
to take; to eat
to serve; to be engaged in
to submit; to agree; to accept; to obey; to be convinced
Used to express defeat even though one is not convinced of the opposing arguments
to convince; to persuade
to be accustomed to
(gaming) short for 伺服器 (sìfúqì); server
(historical) inner pair of horses among the four that pull an imperial carriage
Classifier for doses for TCM regimens.
a surname, Fu

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