Following Corbett(2005) this paper suggests that bare nouns in Chinese encode general number rather than generic reference. In English, we must choose either singular or plural when writing nouns. However, in Chinese, nouns are not obligatorily specified for number. According to Corbett(2005), Chinese bare nouns are neutral or unspecified for number and they can be either singular or plural. Therefore, markers are required in order to specifically indicate either singularity or plurality. As we know, only a restricted number of common nouns referring to people can be suffixed by plural marker men. Therefore, in this paper, we would like to investigate the other means to express the meaning of the plurality in Chinese other than men. We concentrate on the variety of plurality expression in Chinese, and on the patterns which are claimed to underlie this variety.