Measure word
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This article is about measure words in general. For measure words in Chinese, see Chinese classifier. For measure words in Japanese, see Japanese counter word. For measure words in Korean, see Korean count word.
In linguistics, measure words are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate an amount of something represented by some noun. Many languages use measure words, and East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use them very extensively in the form of number classifiers.