中文不尋常量詞的創造與使用散見於整個中國歷史中種種不同的書籍�堙C然而，這種量詞大部分用於史學著作（如史記，新唐，元史，宋史等），小說（如聊齋誌異），雜書（如述異記），詩詞（如唐詩，宋詞）或有關軼事，傳說及風俗習慣之雜書（如酉陽雜俎，北戶錄，太平廣記）。然而，此種創造與使用不尋常量詞的現像大部分是基於作者的動機，想要炫耀他的博學多聞，優雅，正統，世故老練，用字的精練，創新，與智慧。也許作者也想要讓讀者覺得他很獨特與幽默，因而作品迷人而有趣。 詩詞裡有許多如此不尋常的量詞，也許心靈創意之表達在感情，思想與用字方面同等重要。史學者作傾向於顯示出優雅與正統，而雜書、小說傾向於顯示出幽默與創意。不尋常量詞的創造與使用，一般而言，是非口語的，大部分出現在古典的文言文作品中，小部分見於白話文體。這些不尋常的量詞往往不普及，僅散見於不同朝代之某些作品而已。

　　　　　Chinese unusual classifiers can be found sporadically throughout the Chinese history. But they are found mostly in historical books or records, poems, lyrics, miscellaneous writings on legends, anecdotes, or customs as well as novels concerning ghosts and spirituals. The phenomena of using and creating of unusual classifiers are mostly based on the motivation of ostentation of an author's erudition, elegance, orthodoxy, sophistication and virtuosity of using words, ingenuity, inventiveness as well as wisdom. Perhaps, these authors also want to impress their readers with uniqueness or humor to make their writings more fascinating and interesting through classifier use. Poems and lyrics are also abundant in such a kind of use, perhaps because creativeness of one's mind is as important as the expression of thoughts, feelings and wording. Historical books tend to show the quality of elegance and orthodoxy while books or novels concerning legends, customs and supernatural things tends to savor of humor and creativeness through this kind of classifier use. These unusual classifiers are generally not colloquial and mostly can only be found in the works of classical Chinese. They are neither prevalent, nor popular; rather, they are only sporadically found in certain books throughout the Chinese history.