liang
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The Mandarin word for two used before measure words
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liang
- I need to buy two apples for the recipe.
Examples
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So here are two, two pieces of glass, two disks of glass.
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And I again, like that two hour session just meant the world to me.
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Two and O, Right, Two and O and then.
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And you just take it two days a month, That's it.
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And so I go out and within two days I was in victorious.
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And he's, he's two years younger than than I am.
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The teacher explained that there are two ways to solve the math problem.
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If you add two and three, the result is five.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Liang is the Mandarin word for 'two' used before measure words. It comes from the Chinese character 兩, which means 'two' or 'pair', so you say liang ge ren to mean 'two people'.
