{"id":15576,"date":"2019-12-31T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/difference-between-er-and-liang-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:47:10","slug":"difference-between-er-and-liang-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/difference-between-er-and-liang-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between &#8220;Er&#8221; and &#8220;liang&#8221; in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tThis is an introduction to the different uses of &quot;2&quot; in Chinese, namely \u4e8c (&egrave;r) and \u4e24 (li\u01ceng).<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tIn Chinese, there are two words for two.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe digit 2 is \u4e8c (&egrave;r). This is used generally in numbers, when counting to ten and so on. When specifying quantities, however, \u4e24 (li\u01ceng) is used. This is when you want to say &quot;two of&quot; something.<\/p>\n<p>  \tA good rule is that if a measure word is used, use \u4e24. \u4e8c does not generally occur with measure words.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAlso remember that two o&#39;clock uses \u4e24: \u4e24\u70b9. It&#39;s two points on the clock, which is a quantity, so \u4e24 is used.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong><br \/>  \tHere are some common examples of \u4e8c in action:  \t<\/p>\n<div>S&igrave; ji\u01cen &egrave;r d&eacute; &egrave;r<br \/>  \t\u56db\u51cf\u4e8c\u5f97\u4e8c.<\/div>\n<div>Four minus two equals two.<\/div>\n<p>  \tHere are some common examples of \u4e24 in action:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div>D&agrave;f\u0113ng y&igrave;zh&iacute; gu\u0101le li\u01cengti\u0101n-li\u01cengy.<br \/>  \t\u5927\u98ce\u4e00\u76f4\u522e\u4e86\u4e24\u5929\u4e24\u591c\u3002<\/div>\n<div>The gale blew for two days and two nights.&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2962729965\"><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>This is an introduction to the different uses of &quot;2&quot; in Chinese, namely \u4e8c (&egrave;r) and \u4e24 (li\u01ceng).<\/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":[1399],"class_list":["post-15576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-measure-words"],"views":361,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}