CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

石块

shíkuài

stone

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

stone

rock

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 石块 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 石块 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我不知道第三次世界大战会用哪些武器，但第四次世界大战中人们肯定用的是木棍和石块。wǒ bù zhī dào dì sān cì shì jiè dà zhàn huì yòng nǎ xiē wǔ qì， dàn dì sì cì shì jiè dà zhàn zhōng rén men kěn dìng yòng de shì mù gùn hé shí kuài。

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

在愁云密布的天空下，在死一般沉寂的十字街口，这些平庸的偶像，粗野无情的雕塑，摆出一副不可一世的气概，象征着我们已进入了那九泉之下的幽冥王国，至少是象征这王国最后的命令，指示人们进入墓窟，那里鼠疫之神，沉沉的石块和漫漫的长夜将使一切声音消失。zài chóu yún mì bù de tiān kōng xià， zài sǐ yì bān chén jì de shí zì jiē kǒu， zhè xiē píng yōng de ǒu xiàng， cū yě wú qíng de diāo sù， bǎi chū yī fù bù kě yī shì de qì gài， xiàng zhēng zhe wǒ men yǐ jìn rù le nà jiǔ quán zhī xià de yōu míng wáng guó， zhì shǎo shì xiàng zhēng zhè wáng guó zuì hòu de mìng lìng， zhǐ shì rén men jìn rù mù kū， nà lǐ shǔ yì zhī shén， chén chén de shí kuài hé màn màn de cháng yè jiāng shǐ yī qiè shēng yīn xiāo shī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 石块.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 石块.

Directly before

沉沉的石块1
和石块1

Directly after

石块和1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 石块

What does 石块 mean in Chinese?

石块 (shíkuài) means stone.

How do you pronounce 石块?

石块 is pronounced shíkuài.

Is 石块 an HSK word?

石块 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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