HSK 6 · Society

军队 jūnduì “army” in Chinese

Traditional 軍隊

What 军队 means

  1. army
  2. armed forces
  3. troops

Measure word 支 zhī · 一支军队 yì zhī jūnduì

How to say 军队

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale军jūn1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale队duì4th tone, falling

军队 in a sentence

  1. 许多老百姓加入了军队。

    Xǔduō lǎobǎixìng jiārù le jūnduì.

    Many ordinary people joined the army.

    Sentence #678011 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 萨姆在十八岁时加入了军队。

    Sàmǔ zài shíbā suì shí jiārù le jūnduì.

    Sam joined the army when he was eighteen.

    Sentence #364839 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 军队 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 军 (jūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
军jūnarmy
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 车cart · chē
The character 队 (duì) with each of its parts in a different colour
队duìsquadron
  • 阝place
  • 人person · rén

How to write 军队

军 6 strokes · 队 4 strokes

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军队 (jūnduì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 军队 (jūnduì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 军队

Words with 军

冠军guànjūn · champion军事jūnshì · military affairs季军jìjūn · third place亚军yàjūn · runner-up将军jiāngjūn · general (military rank)

Words with 队

队duì · team排队páiduì · to line up队伍duìwu · ranks

More words: Society & Law

竞选jìngxuǎn · to run for office纠纷jiūfēn · dispute救济jiùjì · to give relief to拘留jūliú · to detain抗议kàngyì · to protest联盟liánméng · alliance礼节lǐjié · etiquette领事馆lǐngshìguǎn · consulate

FAQs

军队 (jūnduì) means “army” or “armed forces”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jūnduì: jūn with a 1st tone, then duì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 军队 is written 軍隊. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 支 (zhī). For example, one army is 一支军队 (yì zhī jūnduì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jundui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 军队 from the suggestions. Typing jundui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
军队 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.