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Measure Words 量詞

This document provides a list of 20 common Chinese measure words or classifiers along with their English translations and examples of how they are used. The measure words describe quantities of nouns and include classifiers for people, flat objects, objects with handles, containers, pairs of items, slender objects, portions, rounds objects, slices, long flexible items, bottles, and cans.

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Measure Words 量詞

This document provides a list of 20 common Chinese measure words or classifiers along with their English translations and examples of how they are used. The measure words describe quantities of nouns and include classifiers for people, flat objects, objects with handles, containers, pairs of items, slender objects, portions, rounds objects, slices, long flexible items, bottles, and cans.

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Measure Words :

classifier for shop (restaurant,


1
hospital, company)

2 is a polite classifier for
people. When it is used, the noun
()
typically does not occur.

flat; sheet (paper, ticket, receipt,


3
bed, table)


classifier for things with handles
4
(chair, scissors, knife, ruler,
umbrella, guitar)

pot; vase (tea, water)
5

cup (water, tea, coffee)
6

classifier for people and many
7
other nouns


pair (chopsticks, shoes, hands,
8
feet)

set; pair (gloves,
9
spectacles/glasses)

slender (banana, sausage, hair,
10
spoon)

plate; dish (food)


11

bamboo steamer (steamed buns
12
or dumplings)

portion; copy (dessert, snack, dim
13
sum, report)

bowl (rice, soup)
14

small and round (candy, pearl,
15
grape, star)

16 round and smaller than (rice,
seed)

slice/piece (cake, dollar, cloth,
17
land)

long and flexible; loaf (bread, fish,
18
dog, snake, river)

bottle (water, wine)
19

can; jar (cola, honey)
20

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