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      Only the second word is an animal. The first word is a quantifier from the Chinese words for thing A, B, C, D and E. So whereas you might say “Person A buys 32 watermelons” in a word problem, the chinese would say “Jia buys 32 watermelons”. Most word problems use saner names nowadays, though.