Thursday 19 March 2009

Chinese measure words

link to wikipedia entry.
link to a very nice collection of the most relevant measure words.

minute/fen/
quarter/ke/

 ben3   book, magazine

 bian4  

 tiao2  streets, rivers, scarfs, snakes, ...

 zuo4  bridges, moutain, ...

  lou2

 zhang1  map, table, bed, other flat, rectangular objects
 
 ping2

 zhi1

 jian4

 shuang1  chopsticks, items that necessarily come in pair

 liang4  car, bicycle, wheeled vehicles

  jia1

 bu4

  bei1

 shu4

 suo3

 feng1

 pian4

wan3

 kou3

 jie2

 lu4

ba3 handful - long and flat objects that can be held (knife dao , scissors jiandao, keys yaoshi)

bao1 package - (package cigarettes , cookies)

bei1 cup - (cup water 杯水, tea 杯茶, coffee 杯咖啡) 

chuang2 set (set of blankets chuang maotan 床毛毯, sheets chuang dan 床单)

ci4 time - (twice a week mei xinqi liang ci 每星期量词)

dai bag - (a bag flour)

duo1 flowers

feng1 (letter)

fu2 (piece of art)

wei4 (persons)

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