 Northern dialects tend to have fewer classifiers than southern ones . 個 ( ge ) is the only classifier found in the Dungan language . All nouns could have just one classifier in some dialects , such as Shanghainese , Standard Mandarin Shanxi dialect , Shandong dialects . Some dialects such as Northern Min , certain Xiang dialects , Hakka Chinese , and some Yue Chinese use 隻 for the noun referring to people , rather than 個 ( ge ) . 
