隊
简 队 · 繁 隊Meanings
- squadron
- team
- group
- Classifier: 個 gè
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4 · dui4
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deoi2 · deoi6 · zeoi6
Cantonese word readings for 隊. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- group; team
- (military) army unit
- line; queue (Classifier: 條／条 c)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 少年先鋒隊／少年先锋队 (shàonián xiānfēngduì, “Young Pioneers of China”)
- Classifier for people or objects in groups or rows: group of; line of; row of
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete) alternative form of 墜 /坠 (zhuì, “to fall; to be ruined; to fall apart”)
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese) alternative form of 㨃 (deoi²)
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