块
Meaning
- lump; chunk; piece
- classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc
- (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
Example sentence
这是冰块。
This is ice.
The character 块
块 is 土, earth, beside 夬 — a clod, a lump. It counts anything that comes in pieces (一块蛋糕) and it is the spoken unit of money where 元 is the written one: 十块钱.