塊

塊 (radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土竹山戈 (GHUI), four-corner 4611₃, composition ⿰土鬼)

• 𤐡, 𤮟, 𭻻

• 块 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 235, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5319
• Dae Jaweon: page 472, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 464, character 17
• Unihan data for U+584A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰuːls, *kʰruːds) : semantic 土 (“earth; dust”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ).

塊

1. piece; chunk; lump; part
   • 把肉切成小塊。 / 把肉切成小块。  ―  Bǎ ròu qièchéng xiǎo kuài.  ―  Cut the meat into bite-sized pieces.
   • 它被割成了三塊。 / 它被割成了三块。  ―  Tā bèi gē chéng le sān kuài.  ―  It was cut into three parts.
2. (colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck

   • 你給三塊，就可以了。 [MSC, trad.]
     你给三块，就可以了。 [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ gěi sān kuài, jiù kěyǐ le. [Pinyin]

     If you give 3 yuan, it'll be enough.

   • 一塊錢 / 一块钱  ―  yī kuài qián  ―  a yuan; a dollar
   • 九塊一毛 / 九块一毛  ―  jiǔ kuài yī máo  ―  9.10 yuan
3. Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
   • 一塊蛋糕 / 一块蛋糕  ―  yī kuài dàngāo  ―  a slice of cake
   • 一塊木頭 / 一块木头  ―  yī kuài mùtóu  ―  a piece of wood
   • 呢塊木 / 呢块木 [Cantonese]  ―  nei¹ faai³ muk⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  this piece of wood
   • 呢塊肉 / 呢块肉 [Cantonese]  ―  nei¹ faai³ juk⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  this slab of meat
4. Classifier for areas of land: plot; tract; area
   • 呢塊地 / 呢块地 [Cantonese]  ―  nei¹ faai³ dei⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  this plot of land
5. (Sichuan, obsolete) tomb; grave

   • 獨滄州守禦指揮使姜知古卓旗占得西南肖波塊 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     独沧州守御指挥使姜知古卓旗占得西南肖波块 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 何光遠, 《鑑誡錄·鬼傳書》

     dú Cāngzhōu shǒuyù zhǐhuīshǐ Jiāng Zhīgǔ zhuó qí zhàn dé xīnán xiào bō kuài [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

• (Cantonese) 嚿／𫩥

Jerry Norman reconstructs Common Min *tɔi⁵ based on the coastal Min forms; it is unclear how the Min Bei forms relate to the coastal Min forms. Possibly from 段 (OC *doːns, “section; segment”); compare 短 (OC *toːnʔ, “short”) > Xiamen Hokkien té (Coblin, n.d.).

塊

1. (Min) piece; chunk; lump; part
2. (Min) Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
3. (Min Dong) place
   • 底塊 / 底块 [Min Dong]  ―  diē-dó̤i / [tie³³⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɔy²¹³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  where
4. (Min Dong, colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
5. (Min Dong) Classifier for places.

• (yuan): see dialectal synonyms table above

• “Entry #9382”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō)
• Kun: かたまり (katamari, 塊, Jōyō); つちくれ (tsuchikure, 塊)

塊 (hiragana かたまり, rōmaji katamari)

1. lump, mass, clump, clod, glob

• 固まり

塊 • (goe) (hangeul 괴, McCune–Reischauer koe)

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塊 (khối, cỏi, khỏi, hòn, khói)

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