运输队 (yùn shū duì) — transport team, transport corps

Definition

noun
transport teamtransport corps
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 运输队。
    Zhè ge yùn shū duì fù zé bǎ huò wù sòng dào gè gè chéng shì.
    This transport team is responsible for delivering goods to various cities.
  • 运输队。
    yùn shū duì De sī jī men dōu hěn zhuān yè.
    The drivers of the transport team are all very professional.
  • 运输队。
    Tā men zǔ zhī le yì zhī yùn shū duì zhī yuán zāi qū.
    They organized a transport team to support the disaster area.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

运输transport
运yùnmove输shūdeliver
联合Coordinate

运输 moves and delivers, and 队 is a team.

Characters in this word

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 運; 运 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辵辵chuòmotion
Sound part声符shēngfú
軍
軍jūn運yùn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 運 combines 辵, meaning motion, with 軍 to give the sound; the simplified 运 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the historical components.

Open 运 →

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 輸; 输 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
車車jū
Sound part声符shēngfú
俞
俞yú輸shū
Same sound today

The traditional form 輸 pairs 車 (vehicle) with 俞 for sound; 車 shows the meaning.

Open 输 →

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.

Open 队 →

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