| 招待 | zhāo dài | to hold a reception / to offer hospitality / to entertain (guests) / to serve (customers) |   |
| 伺候 | cì hòu | to serve / to wait upon | |
| 服务 | fú wù | to serve / service / CL:項|项[xiang4] | |
| 效力 | xiào lì | effectiveness / positive effect / to serve (in some capacity) | |
| 服侍 | fú shi | to attend to / to care for (patients etc) / to look after / to wait upon / to serve / also written 伏侍, see also 服事[fu2 shi4] | |
| 发球 | fā qiú | (tennis etc) to serve / (golf) to tee off | |
| 侍从 | shì cóng | to serve (an important personage) / attendant / retainer | |
| 臣服 | chén fú | to acknowledge allegiance to (some regime) / to serve | |
| 侍候 | shì hòu | to serve / to wait upon | |
| 效劳 | xiào láo | to serve (in some capacity) / to work for | |
| 侍奉 | shì fèng | to wait upon / to serve / to attend to sb's needs | |
| 服 |  fú | clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes | |
| 监外执行 | jiān wài zhí xíng | to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law) | |
| 侍 | shì | to serve / to attend upon | |
| 事奉 | shì fèng | to serve | |
| 管待 | guǎn dài | to wait on / to attend / to serve | |
| 端上 | duān shàng | to serve (food, tea etc) | |
| 端饭 | duān fàn | to serve (food) | |
| 伺候 | cì hou | to serve / to wait upon | |
