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塊
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Translingual
Han character
塊 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土竹山戈 (GHUI), four-corner 46113, composition ⿰土鬼)
Derived characters
- 𤐡, 𤮟, 𭻻
Related 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
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːls, *kʰruːds): semantic 土 (“earth; dust”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ) – clod of dirt.
Etymology 1
Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): kuai3
- (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): kuài
- (Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): kuāi
- (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): куэ (kue, II)
- Cantonese
- (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): faai3
- (Dongguan, Jyutping++): faai3
- (Taishan, Wiktionary): fai1
- Gan (Wiktionary): kuai3
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): kuai2 / kuai3
- Northern Min (KCR): ko̿
- Eastern Min (BUC): kuái
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kuei4 / kuai4
- Southern Min
- Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): waai3
- Wu (Wugniu)
- Xiang
- (Changsha, Wiktionary): kuai3
- (Loudi, Wiktionary): kua3 / kua4
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: kuài
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: kuài
- Wade–Giles: kʻuai4
- Yale: kwài
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
- Palladius: куай (kuaj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: kuàir
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: kuàir
- Wade–Giles: kʻuai4-ʼrh
- Yale: kwàir
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuall
- Palladius: куайр (kuajr)
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: kuai3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: kuai
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuai⁵³/
- (Xi'an)
- Guanzhong Pinyin: kuài
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuæ⁵³/
- (Nanjing)
- Nanjing Pinyin: kuāi
- Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): kuai4
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuɛ⁴⁴/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: куэ (kue, II)
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuɛ⁵¹/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: faai3
- Yale: faai
- Cantonese Pinyin: faai3
- Guangdong Romanization: fai3
- Sinological IPA (key): /faːi̯³³/
- (Dongguan, Guancheng)
- Jyutping++: faai3
- Sinological IPA (key): /fai³²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: fai1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fai³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: kuai3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuai²¹³/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khoai
- Hakka Romanization System: kuai
- Hagfa Pinyim: kuai4
- Sinological IPA: /kʰu̯ai̯⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: kuai2 / kuai3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /kʰuai⁵³/, /kʰuai⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
Note: kuai3 - classifier.
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ko̿
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰo³³/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: kuái
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuɑi²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Nanri, Xianyou, Fengting)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: kuei4
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kua̍i
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuei⁴²/
- (Jiangkou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: kuai4
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuɐi⁴²/
- (Youyang)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: kuai4
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰuai⁴²/
- (Putian, Nanri, Xianyou, Fengting)
- Southern Min
- Southern Pinghua
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
- Jyutping++: waai3
- Sinological IPA (key): /βai⁵⁵/
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
- Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Songjiang, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing)
- Wugniu: 5khue
- MiniDict: khue去
- MiniDict: khuie去
- Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 2khue
- Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰue³⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Jiading): /kʰuɪ³⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /kʰue³⁵/
- Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kʰue⁵²³/
- Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /kʰue³³⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /kʰuɛ⁴⁵/
- Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /kʰue³³/
- (Northern: Changzhou)
- (Northern: Chongming, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhoushan)
- (Northern: Ningbo)
- (Jinhua)
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Songjiang, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing)
Note:
- Ningbo:
- 3khuei - classifier.
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: kuai3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰu̯ai̯⁴¹/
- (Loudi)
- Wiktionary: kua3 / kua4
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰu̯a⁴²/, /kʰu̯a³⁵/
- (Changsha)
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: khwojH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kʰ]ˤ<r>uj-s/, /*[kʰ]ˤuj-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*kʰuːls/, /*kʰruːds/
Definitions
塊
- piece; chunk; lump; part
- Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
- Classifier for areas of land: plot; tract; area
- (colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
- (Teochew) place
- 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “無”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 16:
- (Sichuanese, obsolete) tomb; grave
- (archaic) calm and indifferent
- Alternative form: 魁
- (archaic) solitary; alone
- Alternative form: 魁
- 彫琢復朴,塊然獨以其形立。紛而封哉,一以是終。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
- From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
- Diāo zhuó fù pǔ, kuài rán dú yǐ qí xíng lì. Fēn ér fēng zāi, yī yǐ shì zhōng. [Pinyin]
- He put away the carving and sculpture about him, and returned to pure simplicity. Like a solitary clod of earth like that he stood there in his bodily presence. Amid all distractions he was (silent) and shut up in himself. And in this way he continued to the end of his life.
雕琢复朴,块然独以其形立。纷而封哉,一以是终。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
Synonyms
See also
- (Cantonese) 嚿 (gau6)
Compounds
- 一塊 / 一块 (yīkuài)
- 一塊兒 / 一块儿 (yīkuàir)
- 一塊肉 / 一块肉
- 一窩一塊 / 一窝一块
- 三窩兩塊 / 三窝两块
- 冰塊 / 冰块 (bīngkuài)
- 卵塊 / 卵块
- 叢塊根 / 丛块根
- 四方塊兒 / 四方块儿
- 土塊 / 土块
- 塊根 / 块根 (kuàigēn)
- 塊然 / 块然 (kuàirán)
- 塊然獨處 / 块然独处
- 塊磊 / 块磊
- 塊莖 / 块茎 (kuàijīng)
- 塊頭 / 块头 (kuàitóu)
- 壘塊 / 垒块
- 大卸八塊 / 大卸八块
- 大塊 / 大块 (dàkuài)
- 大塊兒 / 大块儿
- 大塊文章 / 大块文章
- 大塊頭 / 大块头 (dàkuàitóu)
- 大煠八塊 / 大煠八块
- 大解八塊 / 大解八块
- 大陸板塊 / 大陆板块
- 寢苫枕塊 / 寝苫枕块
- 成團打塊 / 成团打块
- 方塊 / 方块 (fāngkuài)
- 方塊字 / 方块字 (fāngkuàizì)
- 方塊舞 / 方块舞 (fāngkuàiwǔ)
- 板塊 / 板块 (bǎnkuài)
- 枕塊 / 枕块
- 板塊構造 / 板块构造 (bǎnkuài gòuzào)
- 板塊運動 / 板块运动
- 株塊 / 株块
- 模塊 / 模块 (mókuài)
- 消波塊 / 消波块 (xiāobōkuài)
- 炒麵塊子 / 炒面块子
- 瓦塊 / 瓦块
- 痞塊 / 痞块
- 石塊 / 石块 (shíkuài)
- 砌塊建築 / 砌块建筑
- 磊塊 / 磊块
- 累塊積蘇 / 累块积苏
- 腫塊 / 肿块 (zhǒngkuài)
- 苫塊 / 苫块
- 葉塊繁殖 / 叶块繁殖
- 藉草枕塊 / 借草枕块
- 血塊 / 血块 (xuèkuài)
- 這塊兒 / 这块儿
- 酒澆壘塊 / 酒浇垒块
- 韓盧逐塊 / 韩卢逐块
- 風疹塊 / 风疹块 (fēngzhěnkuài)
- 魔術方塊 / 魔术方块 (móshù fāngkuài)
Etymology 2
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 段 (OC *doːns, “section; segment”); compare 短 (OC *toːnʔ, “short”) > Xiamen Hokkien té (Coblin, n.d.).
Pronunciation
- Northern Min (KCR): tī
- Eastern Min (BUC): dó̤i
- Southern Min
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tī
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰi⁵⁵/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dó̤i
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɔy²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Dialectal data
Definitions
塊
- (Eastern Min, Hokkien) piece; chunk; lump; part
- (Northern Min, Eastern Min, Hokkien, Leizhou Min) Classifier for piece of something (food, cloth, stone): piece; chunk; slab
- (Northern Min, Eastern Min, colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
- (Hokkien) Classifier for songs and stories.
- (Eastern Min, Hokkien, Teochew) place
- Alternative forms: 地, 帶 / 带, 處 / 处
- 底塊/底块 [Eastern Min] ― diē-dó̤i / [tie³³⁻⁵⁵ (t-)lɔy²¹³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA] ― where
- 鎮塊/镇块 [Hokkien] ― tìn-tè [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to take up space
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) home
- Alternative form: 地
- (Eastern Min, Hokkien) Classifier for places.
Synonyms
Compounds
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teh
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teh
- Tâi-lô: teh
- Phofsit Daibuun: deq
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /teʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Definitions
塊
Further reading
- “塊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “塊”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “块”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 156.
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Kanji
塊
Readings
Compounds
- 酸塊 (suguri)
- 松塊 (matsuhodo)
Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of 塊 – see the following entry. | ||
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(This term, 塊, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Etymology 2
From Middle Chinese 塊 (MC khwojH).
Pronunciation
Affix
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 塊茎 (kaikei)
- 塊鉱 (kaikō)
- 塊根 (kaikon)
- 塊状 (kaijō)
- 塊然 (kaizen)
- 塊村 (kaison)
- 塊炭 (kaitan)
- 塊土 (kaido)
- 一塊 (ikkai)
- 岩塊 (gankai)
- 凝塊 (gyōkai)
- 金塊 (kinkai)
- 血塊 (kekkai)
- 山塊 (sankai)
- 集塊 (shūkai)
- 小塊 (shōkai)
- 水塊 (suikai)
- 石塊 (sekkai)
- 団塊 (dankai)
- 地塊 (chikai)
- 鋳塊 (chūkai)
- 土塊 (dokai)
- 肉塊 (nikukai), 肉塊 (nikkai)
- 氷塊 (hyōkai)
- 糞塊 (funkai)
- 磊塊 (raikai)
- 卵塊 (rankai)
- 陸塊 (rikukai)
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 塊 (MC khwojH).
Historical readings
- Recorded as Middle Korean 쾽〮 (Yale: khwóy) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
- Recorded as Middle Korean 괴〯 (kwǒy) (Yale: kwǒy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [kwe̞] ~ [kø̞]
- Phonetic hangul: [궤/괴]
Hanja
塊 (eumhun 덩어리 괴 (deong'eori goe))
Compounds
Compounds
- 강괴 (剛塊, ganggoe)
- 단괴 (團塊, dan'goe)
- 대괴 (大塊, daegoe)
- 금괴 (金塊, geumgoe)
- 빙괴 (氷塊, binggoe)
- 산괴 (山塊, san'goe)
- 괴상 (塊狀, goesang)
- 괴근 (塊根, goegeun)
- 괴석 (塊石, goeseok)
- 광괴 (鑛塊, gwanggoe)
- 괴탄 (塊炭, goetan)
- 분괴 (分塊, bun'goe)
- 석되 (石塊, seokdoe)
- 설괴 (雪塊, seolgoe)
- 혈괴 (血塊, hyeolgoe)
- 괴광 (塊鑛, goegwang)
- 괴금 (塊金, goegeum)
- 괴철 (塊鐵, goecheol)
- 괴촌 (塊村, goechon)
- 괴토 (塊土, goeto)
- 근괴 (根塊, geun'goe)
- 토괴 (土塊, togoe)
- 강괴 (鋼塊, ganggoe)
- 일괴 (一塊, ilgoe)
References
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Vietnamese
Han character
塊: Hán Nôm readings: khối, cỏi, khỏi, hòn, khói
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