daofeishi Posted January 12, 2010 at 03:29 AM Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 at 03:29 AM I have a problem with knowing a lot of nouns without knowing their corresponding measure words. I've also had a lot of discussions with Chinese friends about distinctions between different measure words like 一只/条狗，一场/部电影，一个/口人, etc. I know there are printed measure word dictionaries that might help me here, but since I spend a lot of time in front of the computer, I'm looking for an online one. I've stretched my google-fu abilities to their limits, but I haven't been able to find one. Does there exist one? If not, is there a particular reason why not? It would be really nice if there were a web service where you could look up the right measure word for any given noun, and vice versa, nouns associated with any given measure word. Something like that, perhaps coupled with example sentences and explanations of variations in usage patterns, would be a really useful tool for learners. (And if it doesn't exist yet, there seems to be a big blank niche out there to be filled on the CSL-market by someone with an entrepreneurial spirit ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongwenChinese Posted January 12, 2010 at 03:38 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 at 03:38 PM This would be interesting to look into, since people rely more and more on the internet nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekhanon Posted January 12, 2010 at 10:52 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 at 10:52 PM I use Yellow Bridge for that. It gives you a ton of information on each entry, with examples of how the word you're looking at is used in a compound word, what its measure is, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daofeishi Posted January 16, 2010 at 01:26 AM Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 at 01:26 AM Nice. I didn't know that yellowbridge listed the measure words. There is still a problem though, and that is that yellowbridge says nothing about differences in usage in the cases where there is more than one measure word to choose from (e.g. 三个人 vs 三口人) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooironic Posted January 16, 2010 at 09:11 AM Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 at 09:11 AM *cough* Wenlin *cough* (Yeah, I know it's not online.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daofeishi Posted January 18, 2010 at 01:59 AM Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 at 01:59 AM *cough* Wenlin *cough* Wenlin doesn't have all the information I'm looking for either. For example, the entry for 人 does not contain any information about different measure words. Neither of wenlin and yellowbridge contained information about different measure word for 大炮. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooironic Posted January 18, 2010 at 02:59 AM Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 at 02:59 AM Yeah, but still... I've yet to see anything that comes close. Not even non-learner/native speaker resources. Though I'd love to be proven wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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