队 (duì): meaning and stroke order
队 (duì) means squadron, team, group, 个.
队
- Simplified
- 队
- Traditional
- 隊
- Pinyin
- duì
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Stroke order of 队
队
- duì squadron; team
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 隊
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Meaning of 队
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duì
Traditional 隊
- squadron
- team
- group
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Radical and structure
- 队
- Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 5 strokes · 阝 on the left, 人 on the right
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Words with 队
- 团队 tuán duì team
- 军队 jūn duì armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- 长队 cháng duì line (i.e. of people waiting); queue
- 队友 duì yǒu teammate; fellow team member
- 排队 pái duì to line up
队 in our stories
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接下来的一个星期，店门口每天都排着长长的队。
jiēxiàlai de yí gè xīngqī diàn ménkǒu měitiān dōu pái zhe chángcháng de duì
For the next week there was a long queue outside the shop every day.
From the story Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
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报名的人比想象的多得多：有德国学生，有意大利学生，还有一个土耳其厨师带来的队。
bàomíng de rén bǐ xiǎngxiàng de duō de duō yǒu Déguó xuésheng yǒu Yìdàlì xuésheng háiyǒu yí gè Tǔ'ěrqí chúshī dàilái de duì
Far more people signed up than they had imagined: German students, Italian students, and a team led by a Turkish chef.
From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5
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她的队友早在两个小时前就登顶下撤了，以为她跟在后面。一队又一队的登山者从她身边经过，有人看了一眼，就继续往上走。
tā de duìyǒu zǎo zài liǎng gè xiǎoshí qián jiù dēngdǐng xiàchè le yǐwéi tā gēn zài hòumiàn yí duì yòu yí duì de dēngshānzhě cóng tā shēnbiān jīngguò yǒurén kàn le yìyǎn jiù jìxù wǎngshàng zǒu
Her teammates had reached the top and started down two hours earlier, thinking she was behind them. Team after team passed her; some glanced at her and carried on upwards.
From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 队
- Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
- Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5
- Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).