Chinese symbol for “caravan”
商队
shāng duì
Traditional: 商隊
caravan
The closest CC-CEDICT match for caravan is 商队 (shāng duì), defined as: caravan.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “caravan”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篷车 (篷車) | péng chē | covered truck; caravan |
| 活动房屋 (活動房屋) | huó dòng fáng wū | prefabricated building; prefab |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 商队.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 商业 (商業) | shāng yè | business; trade |
| 商品 | shāng pǐn | commodity; goods; merchandise; measure word: 件 (jiàn) |
| 商店 | shāng diàn | store; shop; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 商人 | shāng rén | merchant; businessman |
| 协商 (協商) | xié shāng | to consult with; to talk things over |
| 商务 (商務) | shāng wù | commercial affairs; commercial |
| 军队 (軍隊) | jūn duì | armed forces; troops; measure word: 支 (zhī) |
| 部队 (部隊) | bù duì | army; armed forces |
See also: Japanese symbol for “caravan”.
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.