to serve, attend upon

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Example Sentences

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1
guó
wáng
de
shì
cóng
jǐn
suí
hòu

The king's attendant followed closely behind

2
xīn
shì
nián
mài
de

She carefully serves her elderly parents

3
gōng
tíng
de
shì
chuān穿
zhe
chuán
tǒng
shì

The maids in the palace wear traditional costumes

4
shì
hòu
chī
fàn

Mom serves me food.

5
shì
zài
yuàn
shì
hòu
bìng
rén

Nurses take care of patients in the hospital.

6
měi
tiān
shì
hòu
nián
mài
de
fēi
cháng
xiào
shùn

He attends to his elderly parents every day, showing great filial piety.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes8
StructureLeft-Right
Frequency#1972
Zhuyinㄕˋ
Components
UnicodeU+4F8D
CangjieOQMC
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Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

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