笔 counts amounts of money and business: a sum, a loan, a debt, a deal. As a noun, 笔 means “pen”, and a pen itself takes 支.
- 一笔钱a sum of money
- 一笔生意a deal
- 一笔贷款a loan
20 nouns that take 笔
Most common first钱coin; money生意business交易to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal财产property; assets款section; paragraph费用cost; expenditure收入to take in; income贷款a loan; to provide a loan (e.g. bank)奖学金scholarship遗产heritage; legacy债debt利息interest (on a loan)账account; bill开支expenditures; expenses; to spend money经费funds; expenditure巨款huge sum of money稿费author's remuneration青史annal; historical record款子a sum of money嫁资dowry
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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