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服兵役

fú bīng yìdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
to serve in the army
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-7121d0169b304691. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

服兵役 服兵役 [fu2 bing1 yi4] /to serve in the army/

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Reference information

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Character information

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  • 服
    fú

    clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes

    fù

    classifier for medicine: dose / Taiwan pr. [fú]

  • 兵
    bīng

    soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[gè]

  • 役
    yì

    forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.