The present research aimed to investigate children’s comprehension of Chinese classifiers. Sixty-five Chinese-speaking children between the ages of 4 and 6 recruited in Taiwan participated in the experiment. The results indicate thatchildren can make generalization based on their understanding of classifiers instead of solely relying on classifier-noun associ-ations. The results also show that the participants performed equally on both shape-based and feature-shared classifiers, whichsuggests that children not only use shape salience to learn Chinese classifiers, but are also sensitive to other relations betweenobjects classified by the same Chinese classifier. Besides, the complex patterns in the results imply that in spite of the exposureto classifiers, the semantic transparency between classifiers and objects varies considerably in both semantic types of classifier,which might be the primary reason that some classifiers are more difficult for children to acquire.