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Kanji Detail for 塊 - "clod, lump"

塊

  • Meaning

    塊 means "clod, lump." Also associated with alone.

    1. Clod - A lump of soil.

    2. Lump - Something solidified into one mass.

    3. Alone - Solitary; isolated; lonely.

  • Words using 塊

    • 団塊 だんかい Listen mass; lump; clod

  • Tattoo check: 塊

    • Verified meaning: clod, lump
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かいと, さいかち)
    • Also carries these associations: alone

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 塊

    Given names 塊(かいと)Listen

    Surnames 塊(さいかち)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    clod; lump; chunk; clot; mass

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    piece, lump; dollar

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    piece, lump, chunk; dollar; measure word for currency

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A clod of earth. All things that accumulate and solidify are also called 塊. | Standing alone. Occasionally used in literary writing. Such as 塊然. | A counter for objects. Colloquially, one plot of land is also called 一塊.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kai(カイ) カイ

    ke(ケ) ケ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kata.mari(かたまり) かたまり

    tsuchikure(つちくれ) つちくれ

  • Strokes

    tip

    13 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    clod lump alone loneliness solidified mass chunk ball block boulder cluster heap mound nugget pile slab wad

Sentences including 塊

  • It's another ball of wax.

  • Candy is a sugary mass.

  • Dreams are a collection of possibilities.

  • Tom is a boomer.

  • A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.

  • Tom has an inferiority complex.

  • I was hit by a huge chunk of meat.

  • Tom ate the last one.

  • The blocks of stone were jointed with cement.

  • Who buried the gold bars here?

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