侍
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to serve; to attend upon
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 侍
- Common rank
- #2,414
- Unicode
- U+4F8D
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
serve · Heisig RSH #2071
人 person + 寺 Buddhist temple
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 侍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侍应生 | waiter; waitress | |
| 侍卫官 | guard | |
| 十常侍 | Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption | |
| 侍从官 | aide-de-camp | |
| 侍者 | attendant; waiter | |
| 侍女 | maid | |
| 侍应 | waiter; waitress (abbr. for 侍應生|侍应生[shi4 ying4 sheng1]) | |
| 侍立 | to stand by in attendance | |
| 服侍 | to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also writ… | |
| 侍卫 | Imperial bodyguard | |
| 侍从 | to serve (an important personage); attendant; retainer | |
| 伏侍 | variant of 服侍[fu2 shi5] | |
| 侍弄 | to look after; to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc); to repair | |
| 侍候 | to serve; to wait upon | |
| 侍奉 | to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs | |
| 侍郎 | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title … | |
| 陪侍 | to wait upon (older people); to accompany; attendant | |
| 侍妾 | concubine | |
| 妾侍 | maids and concubines | |
| 媵侍 | concubine (old) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 寺 — compare how they read.