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塊 means 'clod'
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カイ
Additional readings
On ケ
Kun つちくれ
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If you're a 'lump' of something in Japanese, you have too much of one quality, as if you were actually made of that thing. When lobbing such criticism, people combine 塊 with abstract nouns. For instance, "利己心の塊 (りこしんのかたまり: lump of selfishness)" means that someone is the very incarnation of selfishness. Learn about lumps, from the literal to the metaphorical. Also find out how to talk about clusters in space and time.
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 塊 is used 3 times, read 2 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 塊 is used 45 times, read 2 ways.
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noun
1. lump; mass; bundle; clump; clod; cluster2. group; crowd
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