服

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: hog8
POJ: ho̍k
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: clothes; garment, to submit; to obey
服, 衣服

Character carries several senses (clothes/garment, to wear, to serve, to submit/obey, to convince, classifier for medicine doses) all sharing the same Teochew reading hog8; the noun sense 'clothes' was chosen as the core meaning, though the character functions mainly as a bound morpheme in compounds.

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