盤 (pun4 pun4*2 | pan2) : course; dish; tray; game

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盤

pun4 pun4*2

pan2

[粵] pun4*2 | [國] pan2
[n] course; dish (of hot/cold food)
[n] tray (for teapot, dishes, etc)
[n] current price; market quotation
[n] plate-shaped object (e.g. chess board)

[粵] pun4 | [國] pan2
[classifier] game; set (of tennis, chess)
[classifier] coil; spool; reel (of tape, wire, etc)
[n] domain; turf; territory under one's control
[v] coil up; twist; wind (rope, hair, legs, etc)
[v] check; examine; interrogate
[v] transfer the ownership (of factories, etc)

[國] pan2 - Mandarin only
[n] plate; dish; saucer (for food) | [粵] 碟

In Cantonese, 盤 is sometimes mixed up with 盆 because of similarity in pronunciation.

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Stroke count: 15

Level: 2

Radical: 皿 (#108)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

盤 / 盘

This word has been viewed 9178 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Jun 2011 12:31

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光盤 gwong1 pun4 guang1 pan2 = compact disc; CD

算盤 syun3 pun4 suan4 pan2 = abacus

鍵盤 gin6 pun4 jian4 pan2 = keyboard, keypad; a keyboard instrument, clavier

盤問 pun4 man6 = catechize; cross-question

地盤 dei6 pun4 = domain, territory under one's control; a construction site

開盤 hoi1 pun4*2 = open quotation

清盤 cing1 pun4*2 = liquidation

盤尼西林 pun4 nei4 sai1 lam4 pan2 ni2 xi1 lin2 = penicillin (loan word); see also 青霉素

軟盤 jyun5 pun4 = floppy disk

星盤 sing1 pun4*2 = an astrolabe
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Showing all 2 examples containing 盤

保險箱裡便有一盤水粵
There's a lot of money in the safe.
[Lit. safe inside have one-tray-water]

呢盤生意係蝕本生意嚟㗎粵
This venture... is loss-making.
[Lit. this [counter] business is loss-making business [explanatory particle]]

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Decimal representation of this word: 盤
Unicode code for this character: U+76e4 (off-site link)

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