Mandarin Measure Words Quiz
Practise choosing the right Mandarin measure word between numbers or demonstratives and nouns.
About the author
Luke McLaughlin created Constructing Language after living in Japan and later learning Mandarin Chinese from scratch. The lessons, games, and guides are built from that first-hand learner experience and checked against native-speaker course work with Hiro for Japanese and Xiang for Mandarin Chinese.
- Lived in Japan and studied Japanese through immersion and structured self-study.
- Learned Mandarin Chinese from scratch as an adult learner.
- Created the Construction Method: audio-first sentence building, grammar graphics, and active recall.
- Built Japanese course material with Hiro and Mandarin course material with Xiang, both native-speaker collaborators.
What this quiz trains
Measure words are part of normal Mandarin noun phrases. This quiz trains learners to pair common nouns with their usual classifiers.
How to use it
Learn each noun together with its measure word, then test the phrase with numbers and demonstratives.