块 kuài — lump; piece; block
块
Level 1 · Common HSK 1 #652
Traditional:
塊
kuài kuai4
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
noun
- (形声。从土，鬼声。字本作“凷”，是个会意字，表示土块装在筐器之中。后来写作“塊”，变成了形声字，现在简化为“块”。本义:土块)
- lump of earth e.g 块阜 · 块苏 · 块山
- piece;lump;chunk;block e.g 把肉切成块 · 块子 · 块聚
- pented-up e.g 块磊
measure word
- piece;lump;cube e.g 一块布 · 一块石头 · 一块煤 · 一块方糖 · 一块肥皂 · 一块冰砖
- yuan e.g 三块钱
adjective
- lonely e.g 块坐 · 块然 · 块独
Related words
- 一块儿 together/in the same place; erhua variant of 一块, together/in the same place/in c
- 板块 slab; (geology) tectonic plate; (fig.) sector; (economic) bloc
- 模块 module
- 地块儿 a plot of land
- 块儿 build; physique
- 方块 a square block; a cube
- 豆腐块 a small block of tofu; tofu cube
- 块头 size/body size
- 方块字 square characters; (Chinese) ideographs
- 肿块 lump; swelling
- 铁板一块 a monolithic bloc; a tightly united whole
- 糖块儿 a lump or cube of sugar; a candy
- 大块头 heavy man/fat man/lunkhead/lummox/lug
- 血块 blood clot
- 块垒 pent-up grief or indignation; a lump in one's chest
- 区块链 blockchain
- 块根 starchy tuber on roots of plants
- 块茎 tuber
- 条条块块 various departments and administrative divisions; the fragmented structure of un
- 一块 a piece; together