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Mythic Mandarin

块 (kuài): meaning and stroke order

块 (kuài) means lump; chunk; piece, classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc.

块

Simplified
块
Traditional
塊
Pinyin
kuài

Stroke order of 块

块

  • kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 塊

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 块

  1. kuài Traditional 塊
    • lump; chunk; piece
    • classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc
    • (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

Radical and structure

块
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 7 strokes · 土 on the left, 夬 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

块 in our stories

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  • “十块一斤。”

    shí kuài yì jīn

    "Ten yuan a jin."

    From the story Buying apples HSK 1

  • “还有一个大房间，一个晚上五百块，可以吗？”

    háiyǒu yí gè dà fángjiān yí gè wǎnshang wǔbǎi kuài kěyǐ ma

    "There's still one big room, five hundred yuan a night. Is that all right?"

    From the story Next Friday HSK 2

  • 后来，她找到了一个房间：又干净又亮，一个月只要两千块。

    hòulái tā zhǎodào le yí gè fángjiān yòu gānjìng yòu liàng yí gè yuè zhǐ yào liǎngqiān kuài

    Then she finds a room that is clean and bright, and only two thousand yuan a month.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

Where you learn it

块 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 块

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).