Chinese symbol for “queue”

伫列

zhù liè

Traditional: 佇列

queue (computing)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for queue is 伫列 (zhù liè), defined as: queue (computing).

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Characters and stroke order

伫 zhù

to wait; to look towards; to turn one's back on

radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes

列 liè

a line; to arrange, to classify

radical 18 ⼑ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

佇 zhù

Other Chinese words for “queue”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
长队 (長隊)	cháng duì	line (i.e. of people waiting); queue
队列 (隊列)	duì liè	formation (of troops); alignment

Related words

Other words that share a character with 伫列.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
伫立 (佇立)	zhù lì	to stand for a long time
系列	xì liè	series; set
一系列	yī xì liè	a series of; a string of
列为 (列為)	liè wéi	to be classified as
列车 (列車)	liè chē	(railway) train
列入	liè rù	to include on a list
排列	pái liè	to arrange in order; (math.) permutation

See also: Japanese symbol for “queue”.

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.