块
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lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,181 U+5757
How 块 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 夬 (phonetic, guài)
How to remember it
lump · Heisig RSH #1275
土 soil + guillotine
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夬 (guài) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夬 sound component | guài | decisive, certain; parted; fork |
| 缺 | quē | to lack, to be short; vacancy, gap, deficit |
| 袂 | mèi | sleeves |
| 炔 | quē | acetylene |
| 鴂 | jué | tailorbird; working bird |
| 觖 | jué | to long for; to criticize; dissatisfied |
Words containing 块
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大块头 | dà kuài tóu | heavy man; fat man; lunkhead; lummox; lug |
| 一块儿 | yī kuài r | erhua variant of 一塊|一块[yi1 kuai4] |
| 块儿八毛 | kuài r bā máo | one yuan or less; around 80 cents or one dollar |
| 拉丁方块 | Lā dīng fāng kuài | Latin square (math. puzzle) |
| 板块理论 | bǎn kuài lǐ lùn | plate tectonics |
| 模块化理论 | mó kuài huà lǐ lùn | modularity theory |
| 方块字 | fāng kuài zì | Chinese characters |
| 金银块 | jīn yín kuài | bullion |
| 俄罗斯方块 | É luó sī Fāng kuài | Tetris (video game) |
| 质量块 | zhì liàng kuài | a mass; a body |
| 一块 | yī kuài | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as 這|这[zhe4]) asp… |
| 区块 | qū kuài | block; segment; section; sector; area |
| 块头 | kuài tóu | size; body size |
| 地块 | dì kuài | parcel of land; (geology) massif |
| 模块单元 | mó kuài dān yuán | modular unit |
| 块体 | kuài tǐ | a block; body of person or animal as a block |
| 全局模块 | quán jú mó kuài | global module |
| 石块 | shí kuài | stone; rock |
| 模块化 | mó kuài huà | modularity |
| 方块 | fāng kuài | cube; block; square; diamond ♦ (in card games) |