啦啦队
lā lā duì · HSK 7
cheering squad
📣 啦啦 = la-la cheer chant + 队 = squad; the la-la-shouting team
啦 is the cheer syllable you shout (la-la-la), doubled for the chant, and 队 means team or squad. Together: the squad that chants la-la — a cheering squad. 队 also shows up in 团队 (team) and 排队 (line up).
啦 — mouth radical 口 + 拉 (lā, pull)
啦 is a modern phono-semantic compound. The mouth radical 口 marks it as a spoken particle, while 拉 (lā) supplies the sound. It is a fused contraction of 了 + 啊, used at sentence end to soften statements or mark a change of state.
啦 — mouth radical 口 + 拉 (lā, pull)
啦 is a modern phono-semantic compound. The mouth radical 口 marks it as a spoken particle, while 拉 (lā) supplies the sound. It is a fused contraction of 了 + 啊, used at sentence end to soften statements or mark a change of state.
队 — 阝(mound) + 㒸 (phonetic, suì)
Originally written 隊, depicting people falling from a mound (阝). The early sense was 'to fall down,' later borrowed for 'a group' or 'team' descending or marching together. The simplified form 队 keeps the mound radical 阝 but replaces the right side with 人 (person), suggesting people gathered in a line.