双 counts things that come in pairs: shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, hands and eyes. Trousers are not a pair in Chinese; they take 条.
- 一双鞋a pair of shoes
- 一双筷子a pair of chopsticks
- 一双手a pair of hands
18 nouns that take 双
Most common first手hand; (formal) to hold眼睛eye脚foot; leg (of an animal or an object)眼eye; small hole鞋shoe胳膊arm手套glove; mitten袜子socks; stockings鞋带shoelace拖鞋slippers; sandals墨镜sunglasses筷子chopsticks连裤袜pantyhose; tights布鞋cloth shoes雨靴rain boots; rubber boots袜裤leggings; tights长筒袜stockings; thigh-highs雪鞋snowshoes
More measure words
The nouns come from the measure-word notes in CC-CEDICT, ordered by how often each word appears in film and TV subtitles. Many nouns take more than one measure word, and 个 often works in casual speech.
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