Basic measurements: Measurements

💬 [号] is used for sizes in shops, so [大号] / [中号] / [小号] are the standard way to ask for large, medium, or small. You can swap them straight into a question like [有大号吗？] 'Do you have a large size?'

💬 [号] is used for sizes in shops, so [大号] / [中号] / [小号] are the standard way to ask for large, medium, or small. For example, [我要小号] means 'I want the small size.'

💬 [号] is used for sizes in shops, so [大号] / [中号] / [小号] are the standard way to ask for large, medium, or small. For example, [中号的] means 'the medium one.'

💬 Words like [短] can be the whole description by themselves: [裙子短] 'The skirt is short.' You do not add [是] before it.

💬 [长] means 'long,' but when talking about hair it often means 'grown long' too: [头发长了]. Like other adjectives in Chinese, it can describe something directly without [是]: [裤子很长].

💬 [轻] means physically light in weight, not 'light' as in brightness. You can use it directly as the description: [这个包很轻].