塊
kuài HSK1

lump

块 塊 kuài
[classifier] measure word
classifier for cloth, cake, soap, stones, or other objects in the shape of a lump or piece

把你的蛋糕切成四块。

bǎ nǐ de dàn​gāo qiē chéng sì kuài.

Cut the cake into 4 pieces.

每块石头都不同。

měi kuài shí​tou dōu bù​tóng.

Every stone is different.

lump nounmeasure word
lump; chunk; block; a solid mass or piece

你需要将红块移动到出口。

nǐ xū​yào jiāng hóng kuài yí​dòng dào chū​kǒu.

You need to move the red block to the exit.

[money unit] measure word
used in spoken Chinese for currency, equivalent to the 元 yuán or dollar

我欠你五十块。

wǒ qiàn nǐ wǔ​shí kuài.

I owe you 50 bucks.

together adverb
together; in the same place or at the same time

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Frequency
Character
Written text
793rd most common 229.8 per million
Movie subtitles
583rd most common 243.0 per million appears in 61% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
279.2 per million appears in 54% of films
Written text
205.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
块
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+584A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)