队

队 · duì

team, group; army unit

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

team, group; army unit

Mandarin
duì
Cantonese
deoi6

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+961F
Radical
阜 · 170
Strokes
4 · Unihan
Residual
2

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

4 strokes
队
Strokes
4
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

4 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿰阝人(G)
How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

Words & connections

Words using 队

Character connections

1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.

Sentence context · 1 matches

Written-form matches; sense and pronunciation are not automatically aligned. Corpus & selection ↗

History & distinctions

Related forms

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
duì
kCantonese
deoi6
kDefinition
team, group; army unit
kTotalStrokes
4
kRSUnicode
170.2
kTraditionalVariant
U+968A
kTGH
2013:180

Readings across dictionaries

Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Sentences in context

Explore 1 example using 队 ↗

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Structure & connections

0.10
139dictionary records using 队1forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿰ Left / right

Shape description
阝 beside 人 · the shape used in China
Source notation ^⿰阝人$(G)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰阝人$(G)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.