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Chinese

隊

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
group; team
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 6
  • radical 阜
  • 12 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'uːds): semantic 阜 + phonetic 㒸 (suì).

Schuessler (2007) tentatively suggests comparisons with 遹 (OC *ɢʷid, “to follow”), as well as an areal word family represented by Khmer ទ័ព (tŏəp, “army”), based on superficial semantics and a reconstruction of the Old Chinese as *duus.

However, based on reconstructions by Zhengzhang and Baxter-Sagart, compare instead Burmese လုတ် (lut, “mouthful of food”), which is a much stronger phonetic match and semantically reasonable (as a "grouped unit").

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese阜 “mound”
  • soundChinese㒸 “a year, age, the harvest”

Related: Khmer ទ័ព, Burmese လုတ်

Meanings

character
  1. group; team
  2. army unit
  3. line; queue (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  4. Classifier for people or objects in groups or rows: group of; line of; row of

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

隊：從高隊也。从𨸏㒸聲。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 行列。 例：車隊、排隊、隊伍
  2. 一種集合多人，有固定組織的團體。 例：軍隊、排球隊、消防隊
  3. 量詞。計算成隊人或物的單位。 例：一隊人馬

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 隊 was written 字形演變

  1. 隊 in Oracle bone script
    Oracle bone
    甲骨文
    Shang, c. 1250–1050 BCE
  2. 隊 in Bronze script
    Bronze
    金文
    Shang–Zhou
  3. 隊 in Chu slips & silk script
    Chu slips & silk
    楚系簡帛
    Warring States
  4. 隊 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  5. 隊 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 隊