noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 large boat
  2. 2 barge

Examples

Bǎi gě zhēng liú, qiān fān jìng fā.
A hundred boats vie in the current, a thousand sails race forth.
Jiāngmiàn shàng yǒu jǐ sōu dà gě huǎn huǎn shǐ guò.
Several large barges glide slowly across the river.

Tips

history
Almost exclusively literary today. Best known from Mao Zedong's 1925 poem 《·长沙》: , ('the whole river clear and green, a hundred boats vying in the current') — the line that made a stock metaphor for fierce competition.

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