📕 Advanced — HSK 5-6 vocabulary
Meaning
Classifier for news items, notices, advertisements, and short entries.
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中文 Chinese
"则"是一个很"新闻化"的量词。"一则新闻"、"一则广告"、"一则通知"——你会在报纸、电视滚动条、手机推送里不断看到它。"则"作为量词时，暗示这是一条"独立的信息单元"，就像报纸上的一栏或者广播里的一条播报。古文中"则"更多用作连词（"否则"=如果不这样），但作量词时完全是现代用法。在HSK阅读中，"则"常出现在新闻类文章的标题或摘要里。
English
**则 (zé)** is a very "journalistic" classifier. "A news item," "an advertisement," "a notice" — you'll see it constantly in newspapers, TV tickers, phone notifications. As a classifier, 则 implies an independent information unit — like a newspaper column or radio broadcast item. Classical Chinese used 则 more as conjunction ("otherwise"), but as a classifier it's purely modern. In HSK reading, 则 often appears in news article headlines or summaries.
💡 Memory Tip
Formal/written. Used for individual items within a category of information — news briefs, ads, notices.
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Classifier for news items, notices, advertisements, and short entries.