两
liǎng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 兩
'Two' when counting things: the form used before a measure word. 两个苹果 'two apples', 两杯茶 'two cups of tea', 两点 'two o'clock'; it is also usual before 百 and 千 (两千 '2,000'). Plain counting, numbers such as 十二 and 二十, and order (第二 'second') use 二.
Số hai khi đếm người hay đồ vật, tức là dùng trước lượng từ. 两个苹果 (hai quả táo), 两杯茶 (hai tách trà), 两点 (hai giờ); trước 百 và 千 cũng thường dùng 两 (两千: hai nghìn). Còn khi đếm một, hai, ba, trong số như 十二, 二十 và số thứ tự (第二) thì dùng 二.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “两” mean?
'Two' when counting things: the form used before a measure word. 两个苹果 'two apples', 两杯茶 'two cups of tea', 两点 'two o'clock'; it is also usual before 百 and 千 (两千 '2,000'). Plain counting, numbers such as 十二 and 二十, and order (第二 'second') use 二.
Is “两” formal or informal?
两 is generally neutral.