成群结队
chéngqúnjiéduì
in groups; in crowds
Characters in this word
结 jié
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 吉 lucky, propitious, good
- 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
- 放学铃一响，孩子们成群结队地跑出了校门。 Fàngxué líng yì xiǎng, háizimen chéngqún jiéduì de pǎo chū le xiàomén. As soon as the school bell rang, the children ran out of the gate in crowds.
- 夏天的傍晚，萤火虫成群结队地飞在草地上。 Xiàtiān de bàngwǎn, yínghuǒchóng chéngqún jiéduì de fēi zài cǎodì shang. On summer evenings fireflies fly over the grass in swarms.
- 周末，游客成群结队地涌向海边的小镇。 Zhōumò, yóukè chéngqún jiéduì de yǒng xiàng hǎibiān de xiǎozhèn. At the weekend tourists pour into the seaside town in droves.
Related words
- 变成 biànchéng to turn into; to become
- 成 chéng to become
- 成绩 chéngjì grades; results
- 成为 chéngwéi to become
- 完成 wánchéng to complete
- 组成 zǔchéng to form; to make up
- 成功 chénggōng success; successful
- 成果 chéngguǒ result; achievement
- 成就 chéngjiù achievement
- 成立 chénglì to be founded
- 成熟 chéngshú mature; ripe
- 成员 chéngyuán member