(duì yuán) - team member in Mandarin
duìyuánTraditional: 隊員
Translation
team member
Stroke order
队
员
Examples
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Our team has twelve members.
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Every team member has to attend training.
篮。
He is a member of the basketball team.
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The new team member played their first match today.
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Team members need to cooperate with each other.
队员 (duìyuán) is "team member", combining 队 (duì), "team, squad", with 员 (yuán), a suffix that marks membership in an organisation or role, the same 员 (yuán) found in 演员 (yǎnyuán), "actor", and 服务员 (fúwùyuán), "waiter".
It is the ordinary word for anyone on a sports team, a work team, or an expedition team, and it stays neutral about seniority: a 队员 (duìyuán) could be the star player or the newest recruit. For the leader specifically you need 队长 (duìzhǎng), "team captain", not 队员 (duìyuán).
Careful with the character 队 (duì) itself: on its own it can also mean "queue", as in 排队 (páiduì), "to queue up", and the two senses, team and queue, are unrelated despite sharing the character.
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