Character: 服
Modern (Beijing) reading: fú
Preclassic Old Chinese: bǝk
Classic Old Chinese: bǝk
Western Han Chinese: bǝk
Eastern Han Chinese: bwǝk
Early Postclassic Chinese: bwɨk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: buk
Late Postclassic Chinese: buk
Middle Chinese: bük
English meaning : to submit, to yoke; [to subject to one's mental effort] > to think intensely, reflect.
Russian meaning[s]: 1) платье, одежда; одеваться; 2) траурные одежды, траур; 3) принимать (пищу, лекарство), глотать; доза, прием; 4) подчиняться; повиноваться, слушаться; послушный, покорный; 5) служить; нести повинности; 6) привыкнуть к...; приспособиться к...; 7) ехать на..., сесть на...; 8) древн. подвластная территория; 9) Фу (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 用也.一曰車右騑所以舟旋.從舟.�聲.古文服.從人.
Comments: Probably same etymon as 伏 *bǝk 'to lie down, put down' q. v., for which there is evidence in favour of OC *b- (the Xiamen colloquial reading pɔk8). The character is also used for a homonymous *bǝk 'clothes, garment'.
Radical: 74
Four-angle index: 5956
Karlgren code: 0934 d-f
Shijing occurrences: 1.2_, 2.2, 47.1
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