Japanese Counting System

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There was just recently another pretty good thread on this topic!

Question regarding Japanese counters

After a visit to Tofugu I became completely overwhelmed by the number of counters that exist in Japanese. They’re listing 350 counters as being between absolutely necessary to know to less common and used. But, the real number is actually 500 counters! After scrolling down the list, I kind of noticed something: many counters are actually just the nouns converted to a counter. For example, to count institutions you use the kanji for institution, 院, to count songs, you’ll use the kanji for song, …