HSK 5 · Emotions

佩服 pèifú “to admire” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 佩服 means

  1. to admire

How to say 佩服

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale佩pèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale服fú2nd tone, rising

佩服 in a sentence

  1. 我佩服他的勇气。

    Wǒ pèifú tā de yǒngqì.

    I admire his courage.

    Sentence #512110 from Tatoeba

  2. 我真的很佩服你的汉语水平。

    Wǒ zhēn de hěn pèifú nǐ de Hànyǔ shuǐpíng.

    I really admire your level of Chinese.

    Sentence #1182085 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 学生们佩服她的领导能力。

    Xuéshengmen pèifú tā de lǐngdǎo nénglì.

    The students admire her leadership skills.

    Sentence #13201807 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 佩服 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 佩 (pèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
佩pèito respect
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 凡any · fán
  • 巾napkin · jīn
The character 服 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
服fúclothes
  • 月moon · yuè
  • 卩seal · jié
  • 又again · yòu

How to write 佩服

佩 8 strokes · 服 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

佩服 (pèifú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 佩服 (pèifú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 佩服

Words with 佩

钦佩qīnpèi · to admire

Words with 服

衣服yīfu · clothes服务员fúwùyuán · waiter舒服shūfu · comfortable服务fúwù · to serve服装fúzhuāng · dress说服shuōfú · to persuade克服kèfú · to overcome (difficulties)制服zhìfú · uniform服从fúcóng · to obey屈服qūfú · to yield

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FAQs

佩服 (pèifú) means “to admire”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it pèifú: pèi with a 4th tone, then fú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 佩服 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type peifu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 佩服 from the suggestions. Typing peifu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
佩服 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.