Why is it when you are saying "a chair" you say 一把椅子， but for "a table" you say 一张坐姿?
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似乎是发音的问题，桌子（zhuozi）坐姿（zuozi）。
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should be '一張桌子'
in english, ppl only use "a"
but in Madarin or Chinese, we have different classifiers
there is no rule of that, so u have to memorize it.
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as chinese i dont know..
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they are Dedicated Classifiers，just like：一（yì）本（běn）词（cí）典（diǎn0，一（yì）匹（pī)马(mǎ)，一（yì）尾(wěi)鱼(yú)...
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Just like a, an, the chinese people express a more complex, but it's all the same meaning
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