Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 隊, the traditional character: 队 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“我已经在排队呢，”我告诉他。
"But I'm already queuing," I tell him.
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Tom在棒球队里。
Tom is on the baseball team.
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一个足球队由十一个球员组成。
A football team consists of eleven players.
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不好意思，请问这是什么队伍？
Excuse me, what queue is this?
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为了参加划船比赛，一支新的队伍组成了。
A new team was formed in order to take part in the boat race.
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主场队总是比对手有优势。
The home team always have an advantage over their opponents.
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他习惯了团队合作。
He is used to teamwork.
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传话游戏是世界通行的游戏。由第一个人传话给另一个，另一个再传给下一个，传至队伍尾端时，最后一位玩家将对其他玩家宣布所听到的词语。
Chinese whispers is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group.