Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular/A List of Classifiers

by Lim Hiong Seng

Lesson XXVII.
a list of classifiers.

個

Kâi,

Applied to men, and things generally.

粒

Liáp,

Applied to„ fruit, spherical things, as balls, pills, &c.

條

Tiòu,

Applied to„ rivers, roads, collars, ropes, laws, hair, snakes, lizards, &c. and things in stripes.

枝

Ki,

Applied to„ masts, sticks, knives, spoons, pencils, pillars, branches of trees or plants, &c.

雙

Sang,

Applied to„ things that go in pairs, as shoes, stockings, gloves, chop-sticks, &c.

對

Tùi,

Applied to„ things that go in pairs, as scrolls, candle-sticks, horses, &c.

頂

Téng,

Applied to„ hats, caps, sedan chairs, &c.

領

Niáⁿ,

Applied to„ coats, bed clothes, nets, mats, &c.

脚

Kha,

Applied to„ boxes, coffins, bangles, rings, &c.

間

Koiⁿ,

Applied to„ houses, shops, rooms.

座

Tsō,

Applied to„ large dwelling houses, ancestral halls.

張

Tieⁿ,

Applied to„ sheets of paper, letters,

包

Pau,

Applied to„ things in bundles and bales.

把

Pé,

Applied to„ bundles of wood, vegetables, flowers, &c.

欉

Châng,

Applied to„ trees, plants, vegetables.

𫂉

Chat,

Applied to„ spaces between the joints on the finger, or on bamboo, sugarcane, &c.

隻

Chiah,

Applied to„ ships, quadrupeds, birds, fowls, &c.

儎

Chāi,

Applied to„ cargoes, boat loads, &c.

塊

Kò,

Applied to„ lands, gardens, boards &c., and slices or pieces of things.

篐

Khou,

Applied to„ dollars, bundles of firewood.

畝

Bóu,

Applied to„ fields.

羣

Khûn,

Applied to„ crowds of men, herds of quadrupeds, flocks of fowls, ducks, &c.

幅

Pak,

Applied to„ maps, Chinese pictures, &c.

件

Kiãⁿ,

Applied to„ any business or affair, &c.

尾

Búe,

Applied to„ fish.

㸃

Tiám,

Applied to„ spots of dirt, drops of rain, &c.

蕊

Lúi,

Applied to„ flowers.

列

Léh,

Applied to„ files of soldiers, rows of houses, &c.

串

Kuãⁿ,

Applied to„ strings of cash or beads, &c.

副

Hù,

Applied to„ things in sets and suits.

本

Pńg,

Applied to„ books.

頁

Hiéh,

Applied to„ leaves of books.

門

Mn̂g,

Applied to„ cannons.

口

Kháu,

Applied to„ gardens, smokes of opium or tobacco.

零些

Tshoh,

Applied to„ a quantity of things, a small crowd of men.

棚

Péⁿ,

Applied to„ stage-plays.

班

Pan,

Applied to„ companies of actors, bands, &c.

位

Uī,

Applied to„ persons of respectability.