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盘 (pán): meaning and stroke order

盘 (pán) means tray; plate; dish, (finance) (bound form) market prices, (computing) (bound form) disk.

盘

Simplified
盘
Traditional
盤
Pinyin
pán

Stroke order of 盘

盘

  • pán tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 盤

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盘

  1. pán Traditional 盤
    • tray; plate; dish
    • (finance) (bound form) market prices
    • (computing) (bound form) disk
    • to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
    • to check; to examine; to investigate
    • to transfer; to sell (property)
    • to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
    • classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
    • classifier for coils
    • classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)

Radical and structure

盘
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 11 strokes · 舟 on top, 皿 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 盘

盘 in our stories

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  • 最后,一盘夫妻肺片都被她一个人吃完了。

    zuìhòu yì pán fūqī fèipiàn dōu bèi tā yí gè rén chī wán le

    In the end she eats the whole plate by herself.

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 腊月二十三那天,奶奶一大早就把厨房打扫得干干净净,还在灶台前面摆了一盘糖瓜。

    làyuè èrshísān nà tiān nǎinai yí dàzǎo jiù bǎ chúfáng dǎsǎo de gāngānjìngjìng hái zài zàotái qiánmiàn bǎi le yì pán tángguā

    On the twenty-third of the twelfth month, Grandma cleaned the kitchen spotless first thing in the morning and set a plate of malt-sugar sweets in front of the stove.

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

  • 不料,酒一下肚,她就现出了原形:一条巨大的白蛇盘在床上。许仙掀开帐子一看,当场被吓死了。

    búliào jiǔ yí xiàdù tā jiù xiàn chū le yuánxíng yì tiáo jùdà de báishé pán zài chuángshang Xǔ Xiān xiānkāi zhàngzi yí kàn dāngchǎng bèi xià sǐ le

    Unexpectedly, as soon as the wine was down she reverted to her true form: a huge white snake coiled on the bed. Xu Xian pulled back the bed curtains, looked, and died of fright on the spot.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 盘

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).