duì

team

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

㒸 sound component

  Sound component

suì

  

obey

Evolution

隊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
隊 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
隊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隊 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
隊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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duì

team, group; army unit; squadron; team; group; CL:|[gè]

Most common words with 隊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

team

队伍

ranks

队员

team member

军队

army

部队

army

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤut-s

dwojH

duì

troop

*m.lru[t]-s

drwijH

zhuì

fall down, throw down


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 67.5477% of movies

287th most common character in movies

268th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+968A

Shuowen

“隊,從高隊也。从,聲。”


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