(duì) - team, queue, line in Mandarin

duì

Traditional: 隊

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Translation

team, queue, line

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound with the mound radical and a phonetic element, originally a body of people drawn up in order. It means a team or queue.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 阝 (mound) + 人 (component in the simplified form)

Stroke order

队

Examples

。

Please line up properly.

。

Our team won.

。

He is the tallest on the team.

口kǒu。

A long queue forms at the door.

伍wǔ。

This team is very strong.

队 (duì) means team, queue, line. 排队 means to queue, and 球队 a sports team.

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Appears in 4 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 队.

军队jūn duìarmy, military, troops 队长duì zhǎngteam leader, captain 部队bù duìarmy, troops, military unit 乐队yuè duìband, orchestra, musical group

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This word is part of lesson 23.