Three Years in Western China / A Narrative of Three Journeys in Ssu-ch'uan, Kuei-chow, and Yün-nan

by Sir Alexander Hosie

10.—Some score. Several score. Ten and more. Two. Some. Over ten. Eight or nine. Ten and more. Nine or ten. Two hundred and more. 5000 and more.

11.—3-4/10 inches. A single one. Five catties of beef. Six catties of mutton. Some catties of fish.

12.—Seven bushels of wheat. Nine bushels of rice. One bushel of buckwheat.

13.—Some teeth. Several myriads of li in length. Forty thousand li. There is a mountain full two hundred li high.

1.—Chiu tiu. Chiu chu. Au chiu. Pieh chiu ‘hlao. Chia chiu hsiung. Tiu chiu ya.

2.—Chiu hsiung. Au pieh pa. Au pieh say. Pieh au lai. Pieh chia lai. Chia hsiung pa nai.

3.—Yi. Au chiu hsiung. Yi say ya pa tiu chiu chia.

4.—Yi pa ver pieh pa lai. Chia chiu hsiung ver tiu pa ka. Hsiung chiu ver au chiu.

5.—Yi pa ver. Pieh chiu chia ver. Chia pa ver yi. Tiu ver chia pa hsiung. Chiu ver.