板
块

Slab in Chinese: 板块 (bǎn kuài)

bǎn kuài

slab

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9Traditional: 板塊1 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1slab
  2. 2(geology) tectonic plate
  3. 3(fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry)
  4. 4(economic) bloc

Stroke order

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板
块

Zhuyin

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ㄅㄢˇ

bǎn

ㄅ/ bㄢ/ anˇ/ third tone

ㄎㄨㄞˋ

kuài

ㄎ/ kㄨ/ uㄞ/ aiˋ/ fourth tone

Simplified & traditional

板块

Simplified

板塊

Traditional

Example sentences

See 板块 used in real sentences with pinyin and English translations.

  • 地球的表面由好几个板块组成。

    dì qiú de biǎo miàn yóu hǎo jǐ gè bǎn kuài zǔ chéng。

    The earth's surface is made up of several plates.

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Related words

块

kuài

lump

板

bǎn

board

黑板

hēi bǎn

blackboard

老板

lǎo bǎn

boss

地板

dì bǎn

floor

叫板

jiào bǎn

to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)

木板

mù bǎn

slab

拍板

pāi bǎn

clapper-board

一块儿

yī kuài r

erhua variant of 一块

Appears in

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9 vocabulary list

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