Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
数
These are the forms of 數, the traditional character: 数 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
量
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Facebook用户数量超过美国人口。
The amount of people on Facebook is greater than the population of the United States of America.
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一般来说，消费者喜欢数量胜于质量。
In general, consumers prefer quantity to quality.
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上海的人口数量和东京相当。
The population of Shanghai is as large as that of Tokyo.
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交通事故的数量似乎在增长。
The number of traffic accidents seems to be on the increase.
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你能得到松饼数量将和你去IRC聊天的次数成反比。
The number of muffins that you'll receive will be inversely proportional to the number of times you talk on IRC.
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在城市里行驶的车辆数量增加了。
The number of cars driven in the city has increased.
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您能估计一下数量吗？
Could you give me a ball-park figure?
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数量不如质量。
Quality over quantity.