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U+584A, 塊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-584A

[U+5849]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+584B]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 235, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5319
  • Dae Jaweon: page 472, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 464, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+584A
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 塊, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːls, *kʰruːds): semantic (earth; dust) + phonetic (OC *kulʔ) – clod of dirt.

Etymology 1

More information trad., simp. ...

Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note: kuai3 - classifier.
Note:
  • Ningbo:
    • 3khuei - classifier.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. piece; chunk; lump; part
    切成切成   Bǎ ròu qièchéng xiǎo kuài.   Cut the meat into bite-sized pieces.
  2. Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
    蛋糕蛋糕   kuài dàngāo   a slice of cake
    木頭木头   kuài mùtóu   a piece of wood
    [Cantonese]   nei1 faai3 muk6 [Jyutping]   this piece of wood
    [Cantonese]   nei1 faai3 juk6 [Jyutping]   this slab of meat
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    Tā bèi gē chéng le sān kuài. [Pinyin]
    It was cut into three pieces.
  3. Classifier for areas of land: plot; tract; area
    [Cantonese]   nei1 faai3 dei6 [Jyutping]   this plot of land
  4. (colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
    可以 [MSC, trad.]
    可以 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ gěi sān kuài, jiù kěyǐ le. [Pinyin]
    If you give 3 yuan, it'll be enough.
       kuài qián   a yuan; a dollar
       jiǔ kuài yī máo   9.10 yuan
  5. (Teochew) place
  6. (Sichuanese, obsolete) tomb; grave
  7. (archaic) calm and indifferent
    Alternative form:
  8. (archaic) solitary; alone
    Alternative form:
Synonyms
See also
  • (Cantonese) (gau6)

Compounds

Etymology 2

More information trad., simp. ...

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

Pronunciation


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Definitions

  1. (Eastern Min, Hokkien) piece; chunk; lump; part
  2. (Northern Min, Eastern Min, Hokkien, Leizhou Min) Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
  3. (Northern Min, Eastern Min, colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
  4. (Hokkien) Classifier for songs and stories.
  5. (Eastern Min, Hokkien, Teochew) place
    Alternative forms: ,  / ,  /
    [Eastern Min]   diē-dó̤i / [tie³³⁻⁵⁵ (t-)lɔy²¹³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]   where
    [Hokkien]   tìn- [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to take up space
  6. (Taiwanese Hokkien) home
    Alternative form:
  7. (Eastern Min, Hokkien) Classifier for places.
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (Hokkien) alternative form of (in the process of; currently)

Further reading

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Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

Etymology 1

More information Kanji in this term ...
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
かたまり
[noun] lump, mass, clump, clod, glob
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Chinese (MC khwojH).

Pronunciation

Affix

(かい) (kai) 

  1. lump, mass, chunk, clod
Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC khwojH).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun 덩어리 (deong'eori goe))

  1. hanja form? of (piece; chunk; lump)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khối, cỏi, khỏi, hòn, khói

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