Counting in Japanese

If you’ve ever studied Japanese you know that counting things is quite complex. Here’s a handy list of 350 Japanese Counters Grouped by Usefulness. Some of my favorites:

• 癖（くせ） is used to count someone’s eccentricities.
• クール（ko-ru）, from the French cour, is what you count seasons of a television show with.
• 片（へん） is used to count fragments, broken pieces, and small or negligible things[…] Unlike 切（き）れ, which is used to count nicely sliced pieces of things, [this] is used to count things in random shapes. It can also be used to count papers that no longer hold value. This includes used mail stamps, used train tickets, losing horse racing tickets, losing lottery tickets, and so on.
• 説（せつ） is used for theories, but it’s also used for rumors and opinions. Take that, scientists.
• 客（きゃく） is for counting things you use only on special occasions, like when you’ve got visitors from out of town and you bust out the nice china and decorative pillows.
• 斑（はん） is used to count the spots on an animal’s fur. Dawwwwh.
• 浪（ろう） is how you count the number of years a person has been studying to pass college or university entrance exams—but only after they failed the first time.