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服务员

fú wù yuán 2–4–2

waiter; waitress; attendant; customer service personnel

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
3
服 · 务 · 员
Syllables
3
fú wù yuán
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 5,531

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 服fú8 strokesHSK 1clothes; wear, dress
  • 务wù6 strokesHSK 2 traditional 務affairs, business; must, should
  • 员yuán7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 員member; personnel, staff member

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我是服务员。

    Wǒ shì fú wù yuán

    I'm a waiter.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 服务员. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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