Today’s Classifier: 套

套, mainly classifier for films, as in - 套戲,yat tou hei – a ‘wrapper'(?) of film. Possibly from when films came in big metal cases. By the way, the origin of 戲 hei is ‘Chinese opera,’ but is now almost solely used for movies.

The word also pops up in 外套,oi tou, jacket or outside wrap. That was today’s classifier, good night.

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