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每块 (měi kuài) — each piece; per piece

Definition

每块 is a measure phrase: 每 ('each/every') combined with the classifier 块, meaning 'per piece' or 'each piece' when items are counted as chunks.

pronoun
each pieceper piece

Examples

  • 每块。
    měi kuài Jià gé shì wǔ yuán.
    The price per piece is five yuan.
  • 每块。
    Gōng sī guī dìng měi kuài chǎn pǐn bì xū hé gé.
    The company stipulates that each product piece must meet the standard.
  • 每块。
    Qǐng àn měi kuài jì suàn zǒng jià.
    Please calculate the total price per piece.

Origin

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 塊; 块 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔearth; dust
Sound part声符shēngfú
鬼
鬼guǐ塊kuài
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 塊 pairs 土 (earth; dust) with 鬼 as a sound part to show a clod of dirt. The simplified 块 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the historical pieces.

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