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
队形
duìxíng
formation; arrangement of a team
Characters in this word
形 xíng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 彡 — hair
- Made of
- 开 to open 彡 hair
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 队形一乱，原本严密的防守体系立刻露出破绽。 Duìxíng yí luàn, yuánběn yánmì de fángshǒu tǐxì lìkè lù chū pòzhàn. Once the formation fell into disorder, the originally tight defensive system immediately showed weaknesses.
- 运动员们排成整齐的队形走进体育场。 Yùndòngyuánmen pái chéng zhěngqí de duìxíng zǒu jìn tǐyùchǎng. The athletes walked into the stadium in a neat formation.
- 大雁在天空中排成人字形的队形飞向南方。 Dàyàn zài tiānkōng zhōng pái chéng rénzìxíng de duìxíng fēi xiàng nánfāng. Wild geese fly south across the sky in a wedge formation.