MEANING/意义
    块
      
  • kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
      
      
    cake; chunk; money; piece; chunks; soap etc; usually as 块钱; unit of currency; measure word for pieces; classifier for pieces of cloth; yuan (rmb) ; lump (of earth) ; colloquial word for yuan (or other unit of currency such as hong kong or us dollar etc.) 
    Type classifier/量词; quantifier/量词  
        
EXAMPLES/列句
  • 三块五。
      
      
    sān kuài wǔ 。
      
    sound for pinyin
    3.5.

  • 四块一斤?
      
      
    sì kuài yì jīn ?
      
    sound for pinyin
    Four yuan for half kilo?
COMBINATIONS/组合
  • 块儿
      
    kuàir
      
    sound for pinyin
    piece

  • 块状
      
    kuài zhuàng
      
    sound for pinyin
    lump-shaped

  • 板块
      
    bǎn kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    slab; block; plate; sector; section; tectonic plate; continental plate

  • 版块
      
    bǎn kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    section (of land) ; (of a newspaper)  printing block; board (of BBS or discussion forum) 

  • 冰块
      
    bīng kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    ice cube; ice chunk

  • 地块
      
    dì kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    tectonic plate

  • 方块
      
    fāng kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    diamonds (in cards) ; square (formed by crossed lines) 

  • 厚块
      
    hòu kuài
      
    sound for pinyin
    chunk; thick lump
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