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kuài

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kuài Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kuài | kuai4
English translation
lump (of earth)
chunk
piece
classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc
colloquial word for yuan (or other unit of currency such as Hong Kong or US dollar etc), usually as 塊錢
>块钱
piece, lump, chunk; dollar; measure word for currency

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About kuài

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

kuài

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

earth

Etymology of kuài

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土夬

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

guài

Explanation

Simplified form of kuài . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and guǐ represents the sound.

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Example sentences using kuài

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他们 tā men fēn chī le 那块蛋糕 dàngāo .

They shared the cake between them.

小王 chī wán fàn Hòu shēn shǎng jiù zhǐ xià shèng 三十 sān shí kuài Qián le .

After his meal, Xiao Wang had only 30 yuan left.

bèi qiāo shí kuài Qián .

He was stung for ten yuan.

shè kuài 石头 shítou , rēng le 出去 chū qù .

He took a stone and threw it.

zhè kuài Tián 需要 xūyào fān .

This field needs to be dug up.

Words with kuài

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
kuài chunk kuài
板块 bǎn kuài slab板塊
地块 dì kuài tectonic plate地塊
一块儿 yī kuài r one block一塊兒
模块 mó kuài functional unit模塊
冰块 bīng kuài ice cube冰塊
大块头 dà kuài tóu heavy man大塊頭
一块 yī kuài one block一塊
石块 shí kuài stone石塊
方块 fāng kuài cube方塊
块头 kuài tóu size塊頭
切块 qiē kuài to cut into pieces切塊
块状 kuài zhuàng lump塊狀
肿块 zhǒng kuài swelling腫塊
血块 xuè kuài blood clot血塊
模块化 mó kuài huà modularity模塊化
碎块 suì kuài fragment碎塊
砌块 qì kuài building block砌塊
砖块 zhuān kuài brick磚塊
块茎 kuài jīng stem tuber塊莖

kuài Decomposition & Compounds

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kuài Decomposition

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