Measure Words in Chinese
则 (zé)
ad, news report, story
架 (jià)
airplane
只 (zhī)
animal
笼 (lóng)
bamboo utensil (for steaming food)
席 (xí)
banquet
床 (chuáng)
bedsheet, blanket
堆 (duī)
big pile
本 (běn)
book, bound papers
束 (shù)
boquet
瓶 (píng)
bottle
碗 (wǎn)
bowl
盒 (hé)
box
罐 (guàn)
can, jar
列 (liè)
chain, exhibited item
班 (bān)
class
具 (jù)
corpse (something stiff or concrete)
套 (tào)
costume
众 (zhòng)
crowd
杯 (bēi)
cup, glass
天 (tiān)
day
日 (rì)
day
道 (dào)
dish
打 (dá)
dozen
滴 (dī)
drop
封 (fēng)
envelope, letter
节 (jié)
event, episode, course
口 (kǒu)
family member, dependent, sip, mouthful
些 (xiē)
few
张 (zhāng)
flat object
层 (céng)
floor
朵 (duǒ)
flower, stem
帮 (bāng)
group, band
群 (qún)
group, flock
把 (bǎ)
handful
顶 (dǐng)
hat
匹 (pǐ)
horse
户 (hù)
household
项 (xiàng)
item in a list, headline
种 (zhǒng)
kind, type
盏 (zhǎn)
lamp
场 (chǎng)
large event, conflict, field, public space, speech
座 (zuò)
large structure
扇 (shàn)
leaf, object that turns on a hinge
头 (tóu)
livestock
支 (zhī)
long and straight object
根 (gēn)
long and thin object, strand
条 (tiáo)
long and winding object, fish, snake, towel, tablecloth, long piece of clothing
番 (fān)
long period of time, activity
台 (tái)
machine
对 (duì)
man woman pair, couple
顿 (dùn)
meal
分 (fēn)
minute
刻 (kè)
moment
部 (bù)
movie
所 (suǒ)
multi building complex
份 (fèn)
newspaper, portion, part, share, order, copy
面 (miàn)
one side of a wall
组 (zǔ)
organization
包 (bāo)
pack, package
幅 (fú)
painting, drawing
副 (fù)
pair of complementary objects
双 (shuāng)
pair of identical objects
段 (duàn)
period of time
位 (wèi)
person (formal)
名 (míng)
person, professional (used when naming a profession)
个 (gè)
person, unit, thing (in general)
通 (tōng)
phone call
帧 (zhēn)
photo, picture
片 (piàn)
piece
件 (jiàn)
piece of clothing (upper body), incident, circumstance
块 (kuài)
piece, slice, monetary unit, yuan
团 (tuán)
pile
家 (jiā)
place of work
株 (zhū)
plant, flower (still in ground)
盘 (pán)
plate
出 (chū)
play
首 (shǒu)
poem, song
辆 (liàng)
road vehicle
卷 (juǎn)
roll
间 (jiān)
room, house
排 (pái)
row, queue
秒 (miǎo)
second
句 (jù)
sentence
艘 (sōu)
ship
串 (chuàn)
skewer
颗 (kē)
small and compact object
叠 (dié)
stack
门 (mén)
subject, series
阵 (zhèn)
sudden passing event
栋 (dòng)
tall building
队 (duì)
team, battalion
壶 (hú)
teapot, pot
次 (cì)
time, occurrence
粒 (lì)
tiny object
棵 (kē)
tree
趟 (tàng)
trip, tour
桶 (tǒng)
tube, bucket
堵 (dǔ)
wall
股 (gǔ)
whiff, smell
篇 (piān)
written piece, article
