Chinese Character Wiki
团

tuán

sphere

Simplified form of 團. Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 專 represents the sound.

Components
囗 meaning component

囗  Meaning component

wéi

  

surround

才 simplified component

才  Simplified component

cái

  

talent

Shorthand for the 專 component in the traditional character 團.

Evolution

团 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
团 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
团 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
团 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

团 (團) 

tuán

sphere, ball, circle; mass, lump; round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)

团 (糰) 

tuán

dumpling

Most common words with 团
Freq.
Word
Meaning

团

round

集团

group

团队

team

陪审团

jury

团结

to unite

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 54.2047% of movies

651st most common character in movies

405th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

團

Unicode

U+56E2


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