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Queue in Chinese

to queue · HSK 4

排队 pái duì

  1. 排 pái row
  2. 队 duì team

请大家排队上车。 Everyone, please line up to get on the bus.

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How do you say queue in Chinese?

Queue in Chinese is 排队 (pái duì). You can also say 队 (duì), 排 (pái).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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