The word **归队** is a verb-object compound formed by combining the character **归** (guī), meaning "to return" or "to go back to," with the character **队** (duì), meaning "team," "unit," or "squad." Literally, it means "to return to the team," and its meaning extends from the literal military context of a soldier rejoining their unit to the broader figurative sense of rejoining any group, organization, or collective one belongs to after an absence.