臣服

chénfú
  1. to acknowledge allegiance to (some regime)
  2. to serve

CEDICT

  1. (by extension) to submit to; to acknowledge defeat or inferiority
  2. (literary, historical) to acknowledge allegiance to; to serve (the emperor)
  3. (literary, historical) to submit to (the rule of)
  4. to acknowledge allegiance to; to serve (the emperor)
  5. to submit to (the rule of)
  6. to submit to; to acknowledge defeat or inferiority

Wiktionary

  1. 奉人为君，自己称臣。《三国志．卷四二．蜀书．谯周传》：「自古以来，无寄他国为天子者也，今若入吴，固当臣服。」也作「臣事」。
  2. 服输。如:「职棒年度总冠军赛，雄狮发威，巨象臣服。」

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 臣 chén
  1. state official or subject in dynastic China
  2. I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign)
  3. Kangxi radical 131
2 服 fú
  1. clothes
  2. dress
  3. garment
  4. to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)
  5. to obey
  6. to be convinced (by an argument)
  7. to convince
  8. to admire
  9. to acclimatize
  10. to take (medicine)
  11. mourning clothes
  12. to wear mourning clothes

Related entries

事奉 shìfèng to serve
侍 shì
  1. to serve
  2. to attend upon
没有人可以共侍二主。

No man can serve two masters.

Source: Tatoeba

侍候 shìhòu
  1. to serve
  2. to wait upon
侍从 shìcóng
  1. to serve (an important personage)
  2. attendant; retainer
效劳 xiàoláo
  1. to serve (in some capacity)
  2. to work for
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