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Mandarin speaker here. There are indeed different counting words for different nouns, so for a bird (鸟) you say 一只鸟 and for a chair (椅子) you say 一把椅子.
by renonce 4y ago
Mandarin speaker here. There are indeed different counting words for different nouns, so for a bird (鸟) you say 一只鸟 and for a chair (椅子) you say 一把椅子.