Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular modernized/A List of Classifiers
Lesson 27
Lesson XXVII. a list of classifiers.
[edit | edit source]| Pêng'im | TL | Characters | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| gai5 | kâi, | 個 | Applied to men, and things generally. |
| liab8 | liâp, | 粒 | Applied to fruit, spherical things, as balls, pills, &c. |
| diou5 | tiòu, | 條 | Applied to rivers, roads, collars, ropes, laws, hair, snakes, lizards, &c. and things in stripes. |
| gi1 | ki, | 枝 | Applied to masts, sticks, knives, spoons, pencils, pillars, branches of trees or plants, &c. |
| sang1 | sang, | 雙 | Applied to things that go in pairs, as shoes, stockings, gloves, chop-sticks, &c. |
| dui3 | tùi, | 對 | Applied to things that go in pairs, as scrolls, candle-sticks, horses, &c. |
| dêng2 | téng, | 頂 | Applied to hats, caps, sedan chairs, &c. |
| nian2 | niánn, | 領 | Applied to coats, bed clothes, nets, mats, &c. |
| ka1 | kha, | 脚 | Applied to boxes, coffins, bangles, rings, &c. |
| goin1 | koinn, | 間 | Applied to houses, shops, rooms. |
| zo7 | tsō, | 座 | Applied to large dwelling houses, ancestral halls. |
| diên1 | tienn, | 張 | Applied to sheets of paper, letters, |
| bao1 | pau, | 包 | Applied to things in bundles and bales. |
| bê2 | pé, | 把 | Applied to bundles of wood, vegetables, flowers, &c. |
| zang5 | tsâng, | 欉 | Applied to trees, plants, vegetables. |
| zag4 | tsat, | 𥱳 | Applied to spaces between the joints on the finger, or on bamboo, sugarcane, &c. |
| ziah4 | tsiah, | 隻 | Applied to ships, quadrupeds, birds, fowls, &c. |
| zai7 | tsāi, | 儎 | Applied to cargoes, boat loads, &c. |
| go3 | kò, | 塊 | Applied to lands, gardens, boards &c., and slices or pieces of things. |
| kou1 | khou, | 篐 | Applied to dollars, bundles of firewood. |
| bhou2 | bóu, | 畝 | Applied to fields. |
| kung5 | khûn, | 羣 | Applied to crowds of men, herds of quadrupeds, flocks of fowls, ducks, &c. |
| bag4 | pak, | 幅 | Applied to maps, Chinese pictures, &c. |
| gian6 | kiănn, | 件 | Applied to any business or affair, &c. |
| bhuê2 | búe, | 尾 | Applied to fish. |
| diam2 | tiám, | 㸃 | Applied to spots of dirt, drops of rain, &c. |
| lui2 | lúi, | 蕊 | Applied to flowers. |
| lêg8 | lêh, | 列 | Applied to files of soldiers, rows of houses, &c. |
| guan6 | kuănn, | 串 | Applied to strings of cash or beads, &c. |
| hu3 | hù, | 副 | Applied to things in sets and suits. |
| bng2 | pńg, | 本 | Applied to books. |
| hiêh8 | hiêh, | 頁 | Applied to leaves of books. |
| mng5 | mn̂g, | 門 | Applied to cannons. |
| kao2 | kháu, | 口 | Applied to gardens, smokes of opium or tobacco. |
| coh4 | tshoh, | 零些 | Applied to a quantity of things, a small crowd of men. |
| bên5 | pénn, | 棚 | Applied to stage-plays. |
| bang1 | pan, | 班 | Applied to companies of actors, bands, &c. |
| ui7 | uī, | 位 | Applied to persons of respectability. |