团 (tuán): meaning and stroke order

团 in our stories

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• 说着，她抓起一块面，甩、拉、折，不到一分钟，一团面就变成了几百根细得像头发一样的面条。

  shuōzhe tā zhuā qǐ yí kuài miàn shuǎi lā zhé búdào yì fēnzhōng yì tuán miàn jiù biànchéng le jǐbǎi gēn xì de xiàng tóufa yíyàng de miàntiáo

  With that she grabbed a lump of dough—swing, stretch, fold—and in under a minute it had become several hundred noodles as fine as hair.

  From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 那一年，天下大旱，太阳像一团火挂在天上，河水干涸，庄稼枯死，人们热得无处躲藏。

  nà yì nián tiānxià dàhàn tàiyáng xiàng yì tuán huǒ guà zài tiān shàng héshuǐ gānhé zhuāngjia kūsǐ rénmen rè de wúchù duǒcáng

  That year a great drought struck the world: the sun hung in the sky like a ball of fire, the rivers dried up, the crops withered, and people had nowhere to hide from the heat.

  From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

• 艄公说：“每年这个时候，黄河上下的鲤鱼都游到这里来。传说跳过龙门的鱼，天上会降下一团火，烧掉它的尾巴，它才能化为龙。”

  shāogōng shuō měi nián zhège shíhou Huáng Hé shàngxià de lǐyú dōu yóu dào zhèli lái chuánshuō tiào guò Lóngmén de yú tiānshàng huì jiàng xià yì tuán huǒ shāo diào tā de wěiba tā cái néng huà wéi lóng

  The boatman said, "Every year at this time the carp from all along the Yellow River swim here. The legend says that when a fish leaps the gate, a ball of fire comes down from the sky and burns off its tail, and only then can it turn into a dragon."

  From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9