IDENTITY
块kuàipiece; yuan (colloquial)
HSK 1Top 580
CORE MEANING
piece; yuan (colloquial)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.piece; lumpHSK2
- 2.yuan (money)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 土earth radical (tǔ)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰土夬
- earth; lump
- gives the sound kuài
USAGE
Common words
一块yí kuàione piece; one yuan
石块shíkuàistone block
Graded examples
一杯咖啡十块钱。Yì bēi kāfēi shí kuài qián.HSK2
A cup of coffee is ten yuan.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A lump of earth (土) — a piece, a block; coins as blocks of money.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #580
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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