HSK 6 · Society

队伍 duìwu “ranks” in Chinese

Traditional 隊伍

What 队伍 means

  1. ranks
  2. team
  3. troops
  4. procession
  5. army
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • contingent
  • force
  • staff
  • line
  • (in video games or fantasy settings etc) party

How to say 队伍

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale队duì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own伍wuneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

队伍 in a sentence

  1. 你们的队伍比我们的强。

    Nǐmen de duìwu bǐ wǒmen de qiáng.

    Your team is better than ours.

    Sentence #870063 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 为了参加划船比赛，一支新的队伍组成了。

    Wèile cānjiā huáchuán bǐsài, yì zhī xīn de duìwǔ zǔchéng le.

    A new team was formed to take part in the rowing race.

    Sentence #336671 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 队伍 can also mean “a queue”

    不好意思，请问这是什么队伍？

    Bù hǎoyìsi, qǐngwèn zhè shì shénme duìwu?

    Excuse me, what’s this queue for?

    Sentence #13549433 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 队伍 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
The character 伍 (wǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
伍wǔsquad of five soldierslight in 队伍
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 五five · wǔ

How to write 队伍

队 4 strokes · 伍 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 队伍

Words with 队

队duì · team排队páiduì · to line up军队jūnduì · army

More words: Society & Law

动员dòngyuán · to mobilise斗争dòuzhēng · struggle赌博dǔbó · to gamble独裁dúcái · dictatorship毒品dúpǐn · drugs防御fángyù · defence方针fāngzhēn · policy法人fǎrén · legal entity

FAQs

队伍 (duìwu) means “ranks” or “team”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it duìwu: duì with a 4th tone, then wu with a neutral 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, 队伍 is written 隊伍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type duiwu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 队伍 from the suggestions. Typing duiwu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
队伍 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

Turn words into conversations

A dictionary gives you the words. A native teacher shows you how to use them. Start with a free 30-minute intro call.

Book a free intro call

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.