measure word #30,841

Meanings

  1. 1 measure word for a stack/pad of thin items (paper, banknotes, documents)
  2. 2 (literary, pron. tà) repeated; numerous; verbose

Examples

Tā cóng chōuti lǐ ná chū yī dá qián.
He pulled a stack of cash out of the drawer.
Zhuō shàng duī zhe yī dá méi pīgǎi de zuòyè.
A stack of unmarked homework was piled on the desk.

Tips

mistakes
Two readings, two meanings. As a measure word for stacks of paper, money, or napkins it is dá. The reading tà appears in literary/old usage like zátà ('chaotic, jumbled') — modern speech almost always wants dá.

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