serve

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

司 sound component

  Sound component

  

take charge of

Evolution

伺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
伺 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
伺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

serve, wait upon, attend; examine; to wait on

 

to watch; to wait; to examine; to spy

Most common words with 伺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伺候

to serve

伺机

to wait for an opportunity

to wait on

伺服

computer server

窥伺

to spy upon

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6750% of movies

2865th most common character in movies

2782nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F3A

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“伺,望也。从人,司聲。”


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