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      for people or objects in general     The three of us went to the cinema.   start learning
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      pinyin: gè 
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      This hospital hired five doctors.   start learning
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      pinyin: wèi 
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      for people or professionals    start learning
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      pinyin: míng 
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      for counting the number of people in a household     There are three people in my family: my mom, dad, and me.   start learning
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      pinyin: kǒu 
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      for corpses, coffins and devices    start learning
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      pinyin: jù 
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      for a household or family     This village is not big, only ten families live here.   start learning
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      pinyin: hù 
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      for certain animals, usually smaller ones     He has a dog and two cats.   start learning
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      pinyin: zhī 
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      This farmer recently bought 20 chickens.   start learning
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      pinyin: tóu 
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      Only four horses participated in the competition.   start learning
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      pinyin: pǐ 
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      She keeps two snakes as pets.   start learning
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      pinyin: tiáo 
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      We planted three trees in our garden yesterday.   start learning
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      pinyin: kē 
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      for trees, plants or flowers still in the ground     Tens of thousands of trees burned during the fire.   start learning
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      pinyin: zhū 
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      He gave me twenty-three roses on my twenty-third birthday.   start learning
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      pinyin: duǒ 
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      for small objects (a handful) or objects with a handle     My son gave me a handful of flowers on Mother's Day.   start learning
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      pinyin: bǎ 
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      for long and straight objects     I asked my mother if she could buy me two pens. I lost mine.   start learning
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      pinyin: zhī 
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      for long thin things such as ribbon, rivers, roads and trousers     There is a river at my village.   start learning
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      pinyin: tiáo 
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      for long and slender objects such cigarettes, guitar strings, hair etc.     He stopped to smoke a cigarette.   start learning
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      pinyin: gēn 
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      for flat objects such as anything made out of paper     He used three sheets of paper to write his article.   start learning
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      pinyin: zhāng 
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      for a lump or a soft mass such as wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)     My cat likes playing with a ball of wool.   start learning
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      pinyin: tuán 
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      There is a pile of clothes on the chair.   start learning
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      pinyin: duī 
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