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运动队 (yùn dòng duì) — sports team; athletic team

Definition

noun
sports teamathletic team
Measure word · 支

Examples

  • 运动队，。
    Zhè suǒ dà xué yǒu hěn duō yùn dòng duì, bāo kuò lán qiú duì hé zú qiú duì.
    This university has many sports teams, including basketball and football teams.
  • 运动队。
    yùn dòng duì Zhèng zài wèi xià ge yuè de quán guó bǐ sài zuò zhǔn bèi.
    The sports team is preparing for the national competition next month.
  • 运动队。
    Zhè ge yùn dòng duì de jiào liàn duì qiú yuán yāo qiú fēi cháng yán gé.
    The coach of this sports team is very strict with the players.

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.

运动sports
运yùnmove动dòngmove
联合Coordinate
队duìteam

运动 (sports) names the activity, and 队 names the team, so it is a sports 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 動; 动 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
力力lìstrength
Sound part声符shēngfú
重
重zhòng動dòng
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 動 uses 力 (strength) and 重 as a sound part; 重 refers to a heavy bag ready to be moved by a human. This note is about 動, not 动.

Open 动 →

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 →
Appears in
Groups & OrganizationsSports & Athletics

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