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dié
📚Intermediate
HSK 6

📕 Advanced — HSK 5-6 vocabulary

Meaning

Classifier for stacked/layered flat objects.

🏮 Cultural Story

中文 Chinese

"叠"是最整齐的量词。"一叠碗"——碗一个扣一个,整整齐齐地摞在一起;"一叠钞票"——崭新的纸币对得整整齐齐;"一叠作业本"——学生的作业按学号排好。"叠"和"堆"的区别就在于**秩序感**:"叠"是有规则地一层层往上加(像叠罗汉),"堆"是无序地累积(像堆垃圾)。办公室里最常见的"叠"大概就是"一叠文件"——等待处理的 paperwork 总是那么高...

English

**叠 (dié)** is the tidiest classifier. "A stack of bowls" — nested neatly one inside another; "a stack of banknotes" — crisp bills aligned perfectly; "a stack of homework" — student papers arranged by number. 叠 vs 堆: **order** is the key — 叠 = rule-based layering (like stacking acrobats); 堆 = messy accumulation (like a trash pile). Office's most common 叠: "a stack of documents" — paperwork to process, always so tall...

🎯 叠 = neatly stacked layers. Bowls, papers, money. Orderly piles.

💡 Memory Tip

Flat things stacked on top of each other. Plates, papers, bowls nested together.

Examples

一叠碗
yī dié wǎn
a stack of bowls
两叠纸
liǎng dié zhǐ
two stacks of paper
一叠钞票
yī dié chāo piào
a stack of banknotes

Common Nouns Used With

wǎnbowls
zhǐpaper
钞票chāo piàobanknotes
盘子pán ziplates
衣服yī fuclothes (folded)

Related Measure Words

📚HSK 6
dié

Classifier for stacked/layered flat objects.

一叠碗
yī dié wǎn
a stack of bowls
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