noun #13,319

Meanings

  1. 1 five (banker's anti-fraud form)
  2. 2 squad; team; company

Examples

Duìwǔ hěn cháng.
The line / team is very long.
Rùwǔ dāngbīng.
To enlist in the army.

Tips

usage
队伍 = team / ranks / line is the most common usage.

Components

radical
rén
person (radical form of 人)
Two-stroke person radical on the left, side form of . originally named a five-person squad in the Zhou military, then generalized to any group, company, or rank. Groups with servant, group, partner, companion — chars about who one stands with.
phonetic
five (phonetic and semantic)
Right side supplies the sound — wǔ read straight across. also doubles as semantic: a is literally a unit of five soldiers, the basic squad size in classical Chinese armies. also serves as the formal accounting form of on bank cheques.

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