Ze in Shanghai dialect and dou in Mandarin Chinese are both quantificational adverbs A sentence containing either of them can be analyzed as a tripartite structure semantically.However,they are not universal quantifiers per se as they do not require exhaustive inclusion.Ze characterizes inclusion of a considerably large number of members in a given set whereas dou expresses attainment of a significant extent in a continuum. Another difference between them is that the former is more limited in interrogative uses, possibly due its greater sensibility to intervention effects of some focus adverbs.