Chinese Character Wiki
块

kuài

piece

Simplified form of 塊. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 夬 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

夬 sound component

夬  Sound component

guài

  

parted

Evolution

块 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
块 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

块 (塊) 

kuài

piece, lump; dollar; lump (of earth); chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

Most common words with 块
Freq.
Word
Meaning

块

chunk

板块

slab

地块

tectonic plate

一块儿

one block

模块

functional unit

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 60.7881% of movies

583rd most common character in movies

793rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

塊

Unicode

U+5757


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