名 counts people in a role or a job: students, doctors, workers, soldiers and players. It is more formal than 个 and common in writing and the news. 第一名 means “first place”.
- 一名学生a student
- 三名医生three doctors
- 第一名first place
24 nouns that take 名
Most common first医生doctor总统president (of a country)代表representative; delegate教练instructor; sports coach经理manager; director校长(college, university) president; headmaster艺术家artist运动员athlete工人worker部长head of a (government etc) department; section chief候选人candidate师傅master; qualified worker大使ambassador; envoy工程师engineer参赛者competitor总理premier; prime minister政治家statesman; politician宫女palace maid小学生primary school student; schoolchild志愿兵volunteer soldier焊工welder; solderer华侨overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality继女stepdaughter翻译to translate; to interpret
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.
Search measurements
Beam preview · 15-second idle timeout · No prewarming. Total time includes the network and any container startup. “First search” identifies a new Go process; it is not a separate measurement of Beam’s startup time.