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Lesson XXVII.
157
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.
