HSK 5 · Function Words

团 tuán “group” in Chinese

Traditional 團

What 团 means

  1. group
  2. organisation
  3. ball
  4. lump
  5. round
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to roll into a ball
  • to gather
  • regiment

How to say 团

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale团tuán2nd tone, rising

团 in a sentence

  1. 你还在合唱团里面吗？

    Nǐ hái zài héchàngtuán lǐmiàn ma?

    Are you still in the choir?

    Sentence #12193693 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 明天第一次陪中国代表团，我紧张得不得了。

    Míngtiān dìyī cì péi Zhōngguó dàibiǎotuán, wǒ jǐnzhāng de bùdéliǎo.

    Tomorrow is my first time accompanying a Chinese delegation, and I’m incredibly nervous.

    Sentence #1977258 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 云是天空中的水汽团。

    Yún shì tiānkōng zhōng de shuǐqì tuán.

    A cloud is a mass of water vapour in the sky.

    Sentence #4936113 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 团 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

How to write 团

团 6 strokes

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

Words related to 团

Words with 团

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

More words: Function Words & Grammar

随手suíshǒu · as you go所suǒ · (grammar particle introducing a passive or relative clause)套tào · set通常tōngcháng · regular万一wànyī · just in case唯一wéiyī · only未必wèibì · not necessarily勿wù · do not (formal

FAQs

团 (tuán) means “group” or “organisation”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tuán: tuán with a 2nd 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 is written 團. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 团 from the suggestions. Typing tuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
团 is an HSK 5 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.