{"id":3023,"date":"2019-10-30T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/what-is-measure-words-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:12:02","slug":"what-is-measure-words-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/what-is-measure-words-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Measure Words in Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>It looks complicated at first, as there are millions of them. Fortunately, you do not need to remember millions. Although, you may not always have an equivalent in English, you can use some tips to get the co<em><\/em>ncept in several minutes.<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(1) b\u011bn is generally used as a counter for book-like objects, such as books, dictionaries, pictorials (bound stuff)<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(2) zh\u012b : long round objects use zh\u012b-such as pens and pencils<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(3) zh\u0101ng:&nbsp; large flat objects are counted with zh\u0101ng-such as tables<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(4) li&agrave;ng:&nbsp; for Vehicles etc<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(5) ji&agrave;:&nbsp; for airplanes etc<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>(6) s\u014du: related with -ship, such as: boats, spaceships and ships etc<\/span><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" \/>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !im<em><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&#8221;>Basically, the most commo<em><\/em>nly used measure word is \u4e2a(g&egrave;).If you do not know the proper meausre word for some items, it is time to try \u4e2a(g&egrave;) instead. Native Mandarin speakers do understand what you are talking a<em><\/em>bout. Just remember to ask your Chinese friends what the correct measure word should be after that. <br \/>  <\/span><\/div><div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2630549951\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) b\u011bn is generally used as a counter for book-like objects, such as books, dictionaries, pictorials (bound stuff) (3) zh\u0101ng:&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[151,1399],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-mandarin","tag-measure-words"],"views":197,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}