佩服

佩服

Chinese

		to respect; wear (belt, etc.)	clothes; dress; garment clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
simp. and trad. (佩服)		佩	服

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pèifú

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄟˋ ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pui³ fuk⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phi-fu̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): pōe-ho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pèifú → pèifu (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄟˋ ㄈㄨˊ → ㄆㄟˋ ˙ㄈㄨ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pey.fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰeɪ̯⁵¹ fu³⁵/ → /pʰeɪ̯⁵¹ fu¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pui³ fuk⁶
    • Yale: pui fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pui³ fuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pui³ fug⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰuːy̯³³ fʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phi-fu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: pi fug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pi⁴ fug⁶
    • IPA: /pʰi⁵⁵ fuk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pōe-ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: puē-ho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poexhok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pue²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pue⁴¹⁻²² hɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pue²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pue³³⁻¹¹ hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pue³³⁻²¹ hɔk̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /buʌi^H  bɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	佩	服
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	蒲昧切	房六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buʌiH/	/bɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buoiH/	/biuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buɒiH/	/biuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwəjH/	/buwk̚/
Li Rong	/buᴀiH/	/biuk̚/
Wang Li	/buɒiH/	/bĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑ̆iH/	/bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bèi	fú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤək-s  [b]ək|[b]əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːs  bɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	佩	服	服	服	服
Reading #	1/1	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pèi	fú	fú	fú	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bwojH ›	‹ bjuwk ›	‹ bjuwk ›	‹ bjuwk ›	‹ bjuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁək-s/	/*[b]ək/	/*[b]ək/	/*[b]ək/	/*[b]əʔ/
English	to wear at girdle, pendants	quiver (n.)	garment; wear (v.)	subdue, submit	box of a carriage
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佩	服
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9651	3366
Phonetic component	佩	服
Rime group	之	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	佩	伏
Old Chinese	/*bɯːs/	/*bɯɡ/

Verb

佩服

1. to admire
2. to wear
3. to remember
4. to follow

Synonyms

• (to admire): (polite) 拜服 (bàifú)

See also

• 欽佩／钦佩 (qīnpèi)
• 羨慕／羡慕 (xiànmù)