服 — clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; to serve; to obey; to be convinced
- Pinyin
- fú · fù
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Handwriting
- recognition only
This character has more than one reading — fú, fù — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 服: 8 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 服 in the HSK syllabus: 21
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 衣服yīfuclothesHSK 1
- 舒服shūfucomfortable; feeling wellHSK 2
- 服务fúwùto serve; serviceHSK 3
- 服装fúzhuāngdress; clothing; costume; clothesHSK 5
- 克服kèfúovercome; to conquer; to put up with; to endureHSK 5
- 客服kèfúcustomer serviceHSK 5
- 说服shuōfúto persuade; to convince; to talk sb overHSK 5
- 服fúclothes; dress; garment; to serve; to obeyHSK 6
- 服从fúcóngto obey; to comply; to deferHSK 6
- 服用fúyòngto takeHSK 6
- 佩服pèifúto admireHSK 6
- 羽绒服yǔróngfúdown jacket; down coatHSK 6
- 不服bùfúnot to accept sthHSK 7–9
- 服气fúqìto be convinced; to acceptHSK 7–9
- 服饰fúshìapparel; clothing and personal adornmentHSK 7–9
- 服务器fúwùqìserverHSK 7–9
- 汉服Hànfútraditional Han Chinese attireHSK 7–9
- 礼服lǐfúceremonial robe; formal attireHSK 7–9
- 屈服qūfúto surrender; to succumb; to yield; to defeatHSK 7–9
- 征服zhēngfúto conquer; to subdue; to vanquishHSK 7–9
- 制服zhìfúto subdue; to check; to bring under controlHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.