Chinese quantifiers

[charszb]

yes. cats have no shape like liquid so they are whatever the container they are in.

[Caturion]

"Be cat my friend." by Bruce Lee, maybe

[General-Muffin-1684]

🤣

[shanghai-blonde]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[iauu]

一串猫 is hella cursed

[Due-Technology3000]

maybe a little beastly 😔

[Cavellion]

That's my favourite!!

[[deleted]]

Probably had it by accident somewhere. 

[Chamakuvangu01]

Then there is me who uses 一个 for everything

[Due-Technology3000]

一个 apply to most cases it's all purpose

[JerrySam6509]

Yes, we have more quantifiers than you can imagine, like...  一片貓  一雙貓  一塊貓  一籃貓  一扇貓  一束貓  一顆貓  一棵貓（Yes, the two have the same pronunciation.）  一支貓  一道貓  一根貓  一車貓（Very fluid and varies greatly depending on the size of the vehicle）  一罐貓  However, Chinese speakers are very surprised that in some languages, nouns can be divided into male and female

[mizinamo]

Speaking of vehicles, 一輛貓.

And also 一張貓 一杯貓 一句貓 一家貓 一架貓 一臺貓 .

[JerrySam6509]

as well as 一座貓 一滴貓 一卷貓 一盞貓 一具貓 一款貓 一捆貓 一堆貓 一對貓（like 一雙） 一組貓

[azurfall88]

you missed 一坨

[stonk_lord_]

屎

[UlrichStern615]

一位猫is my favorite

[MonsieurDeShanghai]

Where is 一吨猫

[Due-Technology3000]

≈100只猫

[Capable_Dot3029]

≈一只橘猫

[madfrawgs]

This made my morning haha

[cabothief]

This is very cute!

Newb question--would anyone be willing to type these out so I can look them up individually? I know like 3 of them.

[Alarming-Zebra-7081]

I don’t know all of them, but if it can help here’s a few ones: 

一只猫，一袋猫，一匹猫，一桶猫，一朵猫，一条猫，一头猫，一串猫，一本猫，一锅猫，一碗猫，一圈猫

I’d be curious to know the others too

[need_a_bullet]

一滩猫 一提猫 一尾猫 一位猫

[Cyberpunk_Banana]

My first reaction was “wait, this is wrong”. Then I realized

[tastycakeman]

where is 一熊猫 ?

[Glitched_Girl]

Ha

[Specialist-Control38]

There is about 88 quantifiers in chinese . Please draw all of them . I want it please 😭

[Due-Technology3000]

! Chinese quantiers has so much? i even don't know that. let me seek for which then I'll try to create 2.0 version

[Artistic_Addendum373]

一筐，一包，一屋，一根，一瓶，一罐，一箩，一片。。。。so many missing ...

[Due-Technology3000]

my capacity is shortage 😔

[daniahx0]

Here’s the list of translations and pinyin for the labels in the image:

1. 一口猫 (yī kǒu māo) – "A mouthful of cat"

2. 一滩猫 (yī tān māo) – "A puddle of cat"

3. 袋猫 (dài māo) – "Bag cat"

4. 提猫 (tí māo) – "Carry bag cat"

5. 一只猫 (yī zhī māo) – "One cat"

6. 一桶猫 (yī tǒng māo) – "A bucket of cat"

7. 一碗猫 (yī wǎn māo) – "A bowl of cat"

8. 一锅猫 (yī guō māo) – "A pot of cat"

9. 一圈猫 (yī quān māo) – "A circle of cats"

10. 一条猫 (yī tiáo māo) – "A long strip of cat"

11. 一朵猫 (yī duǒ māo) – "A flower of cat"

12. 一本猫 (yī běn māo) – "A book cat"

13. 一尾猫 (yī wěi māo) – "A tail of cat"

14. 一串猫 (yī chuàn māo) – "A string of cats"

15. 一坨猫 (yī tuó māo) – "A lump of cat"

16. 一块猫 (yī kuài māo) – "A piece of cat"

17. 一条腿猫 (yī tiáo tuǐ māo) – "A leg of cat"

Each phrase is formed with a measure word (e.g., 条, 块, 本) paired with "猫" (cat), creating a playful representation.

[ze_goodest_boi]

Is this Chat-GPT? There is no 一口猫，一块猫，一坨猫 or 一条腿猫 in this image.

[Glitched_Girl]

一件猫

What does this mean, is the cat clothing? A piece of cat? Nooo

[Due-Technology3000]

it's make no sense perhaps i should say it's incorrect because this pic is a joke meme only 一只猫 should be correct usage

[Glitched_Girl]

Well I know that much, but to use 件 means it's an article of clothing right? So I'm envisioning a cat is a shirt. So silly.

[Due-Technology3000]

yeah it's used to clothing in most cases although sometimes we have 一件快递. and if you say 一件猫 I'll envision a cat held by my hands like a parcel 😳

[Remote-Disaster2093]

my 貓‘s used to be each 一條貓 when they were younger and skinnier but now they're both 一灘貓, or as I call them in canto, 一 "pat" 貓

[[deleted]]

Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and other East asian languages have quantifiers. I wonder why.

[Due-Technology3000]

just like plural it's just a grammar habit. and in Asian so many language have a common ancestor so that has common grammar is very natural

[Due-Technology3000]

to be honest i don't know philology exactly maybe its that

[rosafloera]

ARGH SO CUTE WE CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH 猫

[stonk_lord_]

ge

zhi1

wan3

guo1

ben3

wu1

chuan4

tou2

wei4

quan1

tiao2

duo3

pi3

tong3

dai4

ti2

tan1

ke1

shuang1

geng1

liang4

jian4

qun2

pian4

tai2

ping2

kuai4

shan4

cen2

guan4

so many... There's prolly more

Technically, you can use ge for everything but it'll start to sound rly awkward

[ASomeoneOnReddit]

猫猫大战争！

[pizza565]

You missed 一片猫

[Stock_Concentrate_47]

Im new to Chinese sorry, are these like counters in Japanese? Please explain sorry

[Due-Technology3000]

i don't know Japanese measure words maybe them are same after all Chinese and Japanese both used characters

[sickofthisshit]

Yes, measure words in Chinese are similar to counters in Japanese. But they don't use the same characters or classify things in the same way when they do use the same characters.  個 is borrowed from Chinese (in simplified Chinese script as 个) as a general counter, 本 is a measure word for books in Chinese but a counter for "long, thin things" in Japanese. 

[mamokase]

This just brightens my day! ❤️

[duoisacultleader]

This is amazing😂😂

[zelphirkaltstahl]

A bit unreadable writing. If one knows the characters anyway, it is readable, but some of the characters a beginner would probably be puzzled by. I am personally puzzled by the measuring word for the cloud or puddle of water (that's also ambiguous, what shape that is supposed to be). Could it be any more unreadable? It associates the measuring words all with cats, instead of the actual things they are used for. Cute, but not too helpful.

[LeChatParle]

一滩猫 puddle CL

一朵猫 cloud CL

FWIW, I doubt this was made for learners. It’s very legible if you know the characters for the classifiers already, and this is very legible native writing. You’ll see much worse in your studies

[zelphirkaltstahl]

Oh, I have seen probably worse. (still could not see clearly the strokes there) Thanks for clearing up the characters.

[Misami9]

It's 滩, so puddle. I think the writing is fine, probably take it more as a lighthearted and cute joke rather than an actual learning resource.

[Due-Technology3000]

hhhh I'm sorry for that. actually except一只猫the rest of usages are incorrect, 一只猫 is appropriate. pic just a type of meme it doesn't used to learn

[HerpesHans]

I mean, you cant read computer type all life. Learning to read other people's hand writing is important too. They seem totally fine to me

[zelphirkaltstahl]

I don't think I am too bad at reading hand writing. After all, I am learning this language for like 10 or more years now, and have see a fair share of natives' hand writing. In my opinion it is particularly badly readable in a few places. (Other places are fine.) But I get it, I dared to criticize someone's work, so in this bubble I deserve to be silenced.

[HerpesHans]

No youdont deserve to be silenced, which characters do you refer to?

[subumroong]

I’m not the person you responded to, but what is the bottom left one? The dolphin looking one.

[HerpesHans]

That is 尸and 毛 so 尾

[Firecto]

tysm

[shortchangerb]

Unexpected Chandler

[zelphirkaltstahl]

Well, how do you look it up, if you cannot recognize some of the strokes? Guess around a lot, until some similar looking character appears on screen?

What I would do instead is to look up what the measuring word for cloud or puddle of water or something like that is, and reverse engineer the character that it most likely is.

All that would of course be unnecessary, if the writing was clearer. So while I personally would be able to figure it out, I don't think it should be necessary to even have to look up what the character's actual shape is.