木块

木塊

mùkuài

noun #34,805

Measure Word

一块木块 kuài

Meanings

1 block of wood
2 wood block
3 chunk of wood

Characters

Examples

孩子用木块搭了一座小房子。

Háizi yòng mùkuài dā le yí zuò xiǎo fángzi.

The child built a little house out of wood blocks.

他把那些木块堆在墙角。

Tā bǎ nàxiē mùkuài duī zài qiángjiǎo.

He stacked those blocks of wood in the corner.

Tips

memory

木 (wood) + 块 (chunk/piece) — literally 'wood-chunk'. The same 块 appears in 石块 (stone), 冰块 (ice cube), 肉块 (cube of meat) — it's the go-to word for any solid roughly-shaped piece.

Stroke Order

木 mù

块 kuài