1 lump (of earth)

2 chunk

3 piece

4 classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc

5 (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

1 fowl

2 chicken

3 classifier: 只 zhī

4 (slang) prostitute

1 (chicken) egg

2 hen's egg

3 classifier: 个 gè

4 classifier: 打 dá

1 one block

2 one piece

3 one (unit of money)

4 together

5 in the same place

6 in company

1 erhua variant: 一块 yī kuài

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)

2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off

3 to go for wool and come back shorn

1 to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom)

2 to pilfer

3 to dally with women

4 to have affairs

1 lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)

2 fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter

3 also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[shā jī yān yòng niú dāo]

1 lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck