块
kuài
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 塊
A measure word for pieces and lumps of things, and in everyday speech the word for a yuan of money. With a number before it, it counts pieces, as in 一块面包 'a piece of bread', or money: 十块钱 'ten yuan', where 钱 may be dropped. Price tags show 元, but out loud people say this word.
Lượng từ cho những vật thành miếng, thành cục; trong lời nói hằng ngày còn là đơn vị tiền, một đồng nhân dân tệ. Có số đếm phía trước: 一块面包 (một miếng bánh mì), 十块钱 (mười tệ, có thể bỏ 钱). Bảng giá ghi 元, nhưng khi nói thì người ta dùng 块.
ClassifierRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “块” mean?
A measure word for pieces and lumps of things, and in everyday speech the word for a yuan of money. With a number before it, it counts pieces, as in 一块面包 'a piece of bread', or money: 十块钱 'ten yuan', where 钱 may be dropped. Price tags show 元, but out loud people say this word.
Is “块” formal or informal?
块 is generally neutral.