\u95cb (qu\u00e8) – to close or shut the door after finishing something; to be at rest; to end; the expiry of a period of mourning; a numerical adjunct for songs; empty, blank<\/p>\n
In addition to all the above meanings, this character is also used as a measure word (\u91cf\u8a5e [\u91cf\u8bcd] li\u00e0ngc\u00ed) for words (\u8a5e [\u8bcd] c\u00ed) and indeed measure words themselves. Measure words or classifiers are used when counting things in Chinese, and also in Japanese, Thai and a number of other languages of East Asia. In English we have a few measure words, such as a box<\/strong> of matches, a sheet<\/strong> of paper, a pint<\/strong> of milk, a can<\/strong> of worms, etc. In Chinese there are about 150 such words and they have to be used when you add a number to a noun.<\/p>\n You can’t just say, for example, two tables, or three letters, instead you have to add a measure word between the number and the noun – for tables the measure word is \u5f35 [\u5f20] (zh\u0101ng), which means sheet and is used for flat objects (paper, tables, etc.), faces, bows, paintings, tickets and constellations, e.g. \u5169\u5f35\u684c\u5b50 (li\u01ceng zh\u0101ng zhu\u00f2zi) – two tables. For letters the measure word is \u5c01 (f\u0113ng), e.g. \u4e09\u5c01\u4fe1 (s\u0101n f\u0113ng x\u00ecn) – three letters (the kind you put in an envelope).<\/p>\n Fortunately there is a default measure word \u500b [\u4e2a] (ge) which you can use if you can’t remember the correct one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u95cb (qu\u00e8) – to close or shut the door after finishing something; to be at rest; to end; the expiry of a period of mourning; a numerical adjunct for songs; empty, blank In addition to all the above meanings, this character is also used as a measure word (\u91cf\u8a5e [\u91cf\u8bcd] li\u00e0ngc\u00ed) for words (\u8a5e [\u8bcd] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}