服

• 読み: ふく
• ローマ字: fuku
• 漢字の分解: 服 (fuku/buku) — clothes, to wear; to submit
• 発音: /ɸɯ.kɯ/

意味

Clothes; clothing; dress; outfit. A general term for garments, especially Western-style clothing.

The most common general word for clothing in modern Japanese. Often used in compounds: 洋服 (Western clothes), 和服 (Japanese clothes), 制服 (uniform). Can also function as a counter suffix for doses of medicine (一服). In daily conversation, 服 alone typically refers to casual everyday clothing.

例文

1. 新しい服を買いました。
2. 明日何の服を着ますか。
3. この服はちょっと大きいです。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, shopping, fashion

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 服 originally depicted a person kneeling in submission, related to the concept of 'submitting to' or 'wearing.' The clothing meaning evolved from the idea of putting something on the body.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal