块 counts pieces or chunks of something solid: a piece of cake, a stone, a bar of soap, a plot of land. In speech it is also the everyday word for yuan: 十块钱 is ten yuan.
- 一块蛋糕a piece of cake
- 一块石头a stone
- 五块钱five yuan
44 nouns that take 块
Most common first地方area; place牌mahjong tile; playing card蛋糕cake巧克力chocolate (loanword)冰ice; to chill sth糖sugar; sweets石头stone板board; plank面包bread皮肤skin玻璃glass; (slang) male homosexual土地land; soil饼干biscuit; cracker; cookie骨头bone; moral character奶酪cheese手表wristwatch木头slow-witted; blockhead肥皂soap大陆continent; mainland陨石meteorite; aerolite砖brick; tile (floor or wall, not roof)铜copper (chemistry)墨ink stick; China ink木板slab; board煤coal黑板blackboard橡皮rubber; an eraser桌布tablecloth; (computing) desktop background香皂perfumed soap; toilet soap干冰dry ice (i.e. frozen CO2)坐垫cushion; (motorbike) seat手绢handkerchief碑a monument; an upright stone tablet瓦片tile面料material for making clothes遮羞布loincloth; (fig.) fig leaf朱古力chocolate (loanword)橡皮擦eraser; rubber乌青bluish black; bruise; bruising号码牌number plate; car license plate坯料semifinished materials木片flat piece of wood; wood chip灰岩limestone (abbr. for 石灰岩 (shíhuīyán))糯米糕glutinous rice cake
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The nouns come from the measure-word notes in CC-CEDICT, ordered by how often each word appears in film and TV subtitles. Many nouns take more than one measure word, and 个 often works in casual speech.
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