克服 kèfú▶ เอาชนะ

Stroke order

克服 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 克 — 7 strokes
• 服 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. (try to) overcome (hardships etc)
2. to conquer
3. to put up with
4. to endure

Related words

• 克กรัม
• 佩服ชื่นชม
• 服装เครื่องแต่งกาย; ชุด
• 说服ชักชวน
• 麦克风ไมโครโฟน
• 克制ยับยั้ง

克服 is pronounced kèfú and means “เอาชนะ”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 克服 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.