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kuài

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kuài Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kuài | kuai4
English translation
piece, lump, chunk; dollar; measure word for currency

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About kuài

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

kuài

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

earth

Etymology of kuài

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土鬼

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

guǐ

Explanation

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

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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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