只
zhī
measure for animals
Part of speech · measure word
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Examples
- 一只猫。A cat.
- 两只手。Two hands.
Collocations
一只两只手一只眼
Mnemonic
只 — measure for animals, single side of pair, organs. Traditional 隻. Two readings: zhī (1st, classifier "one of pair") and zhǐ (3rd, adverb "only"). Slug "zhi-only" listed as classifier; same character also covers adverb sense.
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