HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Body

队 duì “team” in Chinese

Traditional 隊

What 队 means

  1. team
  2. queue
  3. squadron
  4. group

Measure word 个 gè · 一个队 yí ge duì

How to say 队

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

队 in a sentence

  1. 他们队又输了。

    Tāmen duì yòu shū le.

    Their team lost again.

    Sentence #1216061 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 哪个队赢得比赛并不重要。

    Nǎge duì yíngdé bǐsài bìng bú zhòngyào.

    It doesn’t matter which team wins the match.

    Sentence #2052717 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 您必须排队。

    Nín bìxū páiduì.

    You have to queue.

    Sentence #401371 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 队 (duì) with each of its parts in a different colour
队duìsquadron
  • 阝place
  • 人person · rén

How to write 队

队 4 strokes

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

Words related to 队

Words with 队

排队páiduì · to line up队伍duìwu · ranks军队jūnduì · army

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信xìn · letter卡kǎ · card酒jiǔ · alcohol气qì · air眼yǎn · eye

FAQs

队 (duì) means “team” or “queue”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it duì: 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, 队 is written 隊. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one team is 一个队 (yí ge duì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 队 from the suggestions. Typing dui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
队 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older 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.