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球队

qiúduì

sports team

Players huddled around a ball
Memory picture

Characters in this word

球 qiú

Strokes
11
Radical
王 — king, ruler
Made of
王 king, ruler 求 to seek
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

队 duì

Strokes
4
Radical
阝 — place, town, city
Made of
阝 place, town, city 人 man, person
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 球队赢了。 Qiúduì yíng le. The team won.
  • 他加入球队。 Tā jiārù qiúduì. He joins the team.
  • 球队很努力。 Qiúduì hěn nǔlì. The team works very hard.

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