團

See also 团, and 団

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 囗 + phonetic 專

Han character

團 (radical 31 囗+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 田十戈戈 (WJII), four-corner 6034₃)

1. sphere, ball, circle
2. mass, lump

Descendants

• 糰

References

• KangXi: page 221, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4834
• Dae Jaweon: page 452, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 725, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5718

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Cantonese

Hanzi

團 (simplified 团, Yale tyun4)

1. (military) regiment

Usage notes

(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a regiment of infantry was composed of three battalions (連) and some miscellaneous companies (連). In turn, two regiments formed a brigade (旅). Three regiments could be formed into a triangular division, where the brigade structure was absent, as a division (整編師 / 編制師).

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Japanese

Kanji

團

Readings

• On: だん (dan), とん (ton), どん (don)
• Kun: まるい (marui), かたまり (katamari)

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Korean

Hanja

團 (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

團 (simplified 团, pinyin tuán (tuan2), Wade-Giles t'uan²)

1. (military) regiment

Usage notes

(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a regiment of infantry was composed of three battalions (連) and some miscellaneous companies (連). In turn, two regiments formed a brigade (旅). Three regiments could be formed into a triangular division, where the brigade structure was absent, as a division (整編師 / 編制師).

Compounds

• 團聚
• 樂團

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Vietnamese

Han character

團 (đoàn)