每队 (měi duì) — each team, every team | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

pronoun

each teamevery team

Examples

每队。
měi duì Dōu yǒu wǔ míng duì yuán.
Each team has five members.
，每队。
Bǐ sài kāi shǐ qián, měi duì yào xuǎn chū yì míng duì zhǎng.
Before the game starts, each team must choose a captain.
，每队。
Zài zhè cì huó dòng zhōng, měi duì dōu wán chéng le zì jǐ de rèn wu.
In this activity, each team completed its own task.

Origin

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

屮屮chè
母母mǔwoman

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 隊; 队 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阜阜fù

Sound part声符shēngfú

㒸

㒸㒸隊duì

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 隊 has 阜 as the meaning part and 㒸 as the sound part.

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