队长
duì zhǎng 4–3
captain; team leader
- Characters
- 2
- 队 · 长
- Syllables
- 2
- duì zhǎng
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 3,177
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 队duì5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 隊team, group; army unit
- 长zhǎng4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 長long; length; excel in; leader
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我们要你做队长。
Wǒ men yào nǐ zuò duì zhǎng
We want you to be the team captain.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 队长. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 长zhǎngHSK 2
chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- 队duìHSK 2
squadron; team; group
- 队伍duì wǔHSK 6
ranks; troops; queue; line; procession
- 长大zhǎng dàHSK 2
to grow up
- 队员duì yuánHSK 3
team member
- 军队jūn duìHSK 6
armed forces; troops
- 部队bù duìHSK 6
army; armed forces; troops; force; unit
- 成长chéng zhǎngHSK 3
to mature; to grow; growth
- 球队qiú duìHSK 2
sports team (basketball, soccer, football etc)
- 团队tuán duìHSK 6
team
- 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2
head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child
- 长期cháng qīHSK 3
long term; long time; long range (of a forecast)
- 局长jú zhǎngHSK 5
bureau chief
- 校长xiào zhǎngHSK 2
(college, university) president; headmaster
- 市长shì zhǎngHSK 2
mayor
- 增长zēng zhǎngHSK 3
to grow; to increase
- 部长bù zhǎngHSK 3
head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister
- 啦啦队lā lā duìHSK 7
cheerleading squad
- 乐队yuè duìHSK 3
band; pop group
- 生长shēng zhǎngHSK 3
to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- 排队pái duìHSK 2
to line up
- 擅长shàn chángHSK 7
to be good at; to be expert in
- 会长huì zhǎngHSK 6
president of a club, committee etc
- 漫长màn chángHSK 5
very long; endless