Measure word
- 项 xiàng back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses... attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
服
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
务
These are the forms of 務, the traditional character: 务 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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做餐馆服务员啊、酒吧招待员啊，都可以。
Either as a waiter at a restaurant or a bartender, both are OK.
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在服务台另外预约。
Make another appointment at the front desk.
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我叫服务员。
I'm calling the waiter.
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我该在这个服务器上设置一个防火墙。
I need to configure this server with an appropriate firewall system.
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有些乘客抱怨服务态度不好。
Some passengers complained about the service.
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服务员，买单。
Waiter, the check, please.
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服务器重启预定在今晚9点。
The server reboot is scheduled at 9 o'clock this evening.
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服务生，我要点菜。
Waiter, I'd like to order.