Chinese Character Wiki
塊

kuài

piece

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

鬼 sound component

鬼  Sound component

guǐ

  

ghost

Evolution

塊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
塊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
塊 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 塊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

块

chunk

板块

slab

地块

tectonic plate

一块儿

one block

模块

functional unit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤ<r>uj-s

khweajH

kuài

clod, lump

*[kʰ]ˤuj-s

khwojH

kuài

clod; lump


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 60.7881% of movies

583rd most common character in movies

793rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

块

Unicode

U+584A

Shuowen

“凷，墣也。从土，一屈象形。塊，凷或从鬼。”


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