HSK 6 · Society

团体 tuántǐ “group” in Chinese

Traditional 團體

What 团体 means

  1. group
  2. organisation
  3. team

Measure word 个 gè · 一个团体 yí ge tuántǐ

How to say 团体

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale团tuán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale体tǐ3rd tone, dipping

团体 in a sentence

  1. 那个团体为难民们提供食品供给。

    Nà ge tuántǐ wèi nànmínmen tígōng shípǐn gōngjǐ.

    That organisation provided the refugees with food supplies.

    Sentence #2442142 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 团体 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 团 (tuán) with each of its parts in a different colour
团tuánround
  • 囗enclosure · wéi
  • 才ability · cái
The character 体 (tǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
体tǐbody
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 本root · běn

Memory aidA person 亻 and a root 本: the body.

How to write 团体

团 6 strokes · 体 7 strokes

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

Words related to 团体

Words with 团

团tuán · group团圆tuányuán · to be reunited (as a family)集团jítuán · group团结tuánjié · to unite

Words with 体

身体shēntǐ · body体育tǐyù · physical training体育馆tǐyùguǎn · gymnasium体会tǐhuì · to know from experience体贴tǐtiē · considerate (of other people’s needs)体现tǐxiàn · to embody体验tǐyàn · to experience for oneself具体jùtǐ · specific集体jítǐ · collective (decision)媒体méitǐ · media

More words: Society & Law

投票tóupiào · to vote投诉tóusù · to complain投降tóuxiáng · to surrender团结tuánjié · to unite违背wéibèi · to go against伪造wěizào · to forge诬陷wūxiàn · to frame武装wǔzhuāng · armed forces

FAQs

团体 (tuántǐ) means “group” or “organisation”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tuántǐ: tuán with a 2nd tone, then tǐ with a 3rd 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, 团体 is written 團體. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one group is 一个团体 (yí ge tuántǐ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuanti with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 团体 from the suggestions. Typing tuanti into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
团体 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.