noun #32,704

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 colt
  2. 2 young horse
  3. 3 foal

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Examples

Cǎoyuán shàng yǒu yī pǐ xiǎo jū.
There is a foal on the grassland.
Báijū guò xì, shíguāng fēishì.
Like a white colt flashing past a crack — time flies.

Tips

culture
specifically denotes a horse under two years old (per 《》). It anchors the famous chengyu 白驹过隙 'a white colt darting past a crack' — Zhuangzi's metaphor for the brevity of human life.
memory
(horse) + (phonetic) — a small horse that is just one sentence () long, not yet a full grown stallion.

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