Chinese word dictionary

掉队

diàoduì · to fall behind; to drop out

Practice word

Word information

Simplified掉队

Traditional掉隊

Pinyindiàoduì

Part of speech动

HSK 3.07-9

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

掉diào

to drop, to fall, to remove

队duì

team, group, band, army unit; measure word for groups of people

How to learn 掉队

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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掉diào

to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

队duì

squadron; team; group; CL:個|个[ge4]

队员duìyuán

team member

队长duìzhǎng

captain; team leader; CL:個|个[ge4]

排队páiduì

to line up

球队qiúduì

sports team (basketball, soccer, football etc)