mass noun, a noun that does not refer to countable concrete items and is not plausibly considered as abstract

1. cannot be counted by concrete individual items ( 三民 cannot mean "three peoples")

2. can be counted by amount-of-stuff classifiers

3. when immediately preceded and modified by a number, mass nouns are counted by kinds ( 三酒 "three kinds of wine")

4. when immediately preceded and modified by a demonstrative pronoun, the reference is typically to a kind of nm, not to a certain concrete amount of it

It is crucial to remember that one and the same word can be used both as a mass noun and as a count noun, an obvious example of this being 毛 1. nm hair; 2. nc a hair

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Usage

• Lexical entries: 630

• Found 2026 attributions

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Hypernym

• n

Hyponym

• nm+V{PRED}
• nm.c
• nm.postVt
• nmadN
• nmadV
• nmpost-Npr
• nmpost-V{NUM}
• nnm
• nm(post-N)
• nm[post-N]
• nm.post-V{NUM}