My HSK Dictionary – Week 7 Worksheets 

This week, we’re studying the following five words:

(Click on each of the Chinese words below to take a look)

高兴 – happy/glad 

个 – individual/classifier for people or objects

工作 – to work

狗  – dog

汉语 – Chinese language

Study

This week we’re learning the character 个, which is known as a classifier or a measure word. When it is used with a number, such as 一个, It’s the equivalent of the article ‘a/an’ in English. There are different measure words depending on the size, shape, type, or variety. 

For example, the measure word for small animals, such as dogs, is 只.

‘A dog’ is 一只狗 (yì zhī gǒu).

Remember the tone change, so the original tone of 一  (yī), becomes yì. 

You can learn more about measure words here.