勤俭为服务之本

hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom)

diligent / industrious / hardworking / frequent / regular / constant

variant of 勤[qin2] / industrious / solicitous

hardworking and frugal

frugal / thrifty / needy

as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)

because of / for / to

variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do

variant of 為|为[wei4]

variant of 為|为[wei2]

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

classifier for medicine: dose / Taiwan pr. [fu2]

to serve / service / CL:項|项[xiang4]

affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc