入队 (rù duì) — to join the Young Pioneers | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

入队 specifically means joining the Young Pioneers (少先队), China's school-age youth organization, typically for children around age 6–14. It is not a general word for 'joining a team' — that would be 加入.

verb

to join the Young Pioneers

Examples

入队。
Tā shí suì de shí hou jiù rù duì le.
He joined the Young Pioneers when he was ten.
，。
Tā qù nián rù le duì, jīn nián jiù dāng shàng le duì zhǎng.
He joined the Young Pioneers last year and became captain this year.
入队，。
Tā rù duì yǐ jīng sān nián le, biǎo xiàn yì zhí hěn hǎo.
He has been in the Young Pioneers for three years and has always performed well.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

入 means enter and 队 means team; together they mean joining the Young Pioneers.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

入 is drawn as an arrowhead, indicating 'to enter'.

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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