塊
kuài HSK1

lump

块 (塊) kuài
piece measure word
classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap, or land

请给我一块蛋糕。

qǐng gěi wǒ yī kuài dàn​gāo.

Please give me a piece of cake.

yuan measure word
colloquial classifier for money and currency units

这本书花了五十块钱。

zhè běn shū huā le wǔ​shí kuài qián.

This book cost fifty yuan.

lump noun
a solid mass, chunk, or piece of something

他把冰糖敲成了小块。

tā bǎ bīng​táng qiāo chéng le xiǎo kuài.

He broke the rock sugar into small pieces.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)