Chinese symbol for “captain”
队长
duì zhǎng
Traditional: 隊長
captain; team leader; 个 (gè)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for captain is 队长 (duì zhǎng), defined as: captain; team leader; 个 (gè).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “captain”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 船长 (船長) | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat); skipper |
| 上尉 | shàng wèi | captain (military rank) |
| 大尉 | dà wèi | captain (army rank); senior captain |
| 机长 (機長) | jī zhǎng | (aviation) pilot-in-command; captain |
| 舰长 (艦長) | jiàn zhǎng | commander; captain (of a warship) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 队长.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 军队 (軍隊) | jūn duì | armed forces; troops; measure word: 支 (zhī) |
| 部队 (部隊) | bù duì | army; armed forces |
| 团队 (團隊) | tuán duì | team |
| 队伍 (隊伍) | duì wǔ | troops; army; ranks; contingent; force; staff; team |
| 球队 (球隊) | qiú duì | sports team (basketball, soccer, football etc) |
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 长期 (長期) | cháng qī | long-term; for a protracted period |
| 部长 (部長) | bù zhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
See also: Japanese symbol for “captain”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.