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Mythic Mandarin

盘子 (pán zi): meaning and stroke order

盘子 (pán zi) means tray, plate, dish, 个.

盘子

Simplified
盘子
Traditional
盤子
Pinyin
pán zi

Stroke order of 盘子

盘

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

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盘子

  1. pán zi Traditional 盤子
    • tray
    • plate
    • dish
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

盘
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 11 strokes · 舟 on top, 皿 below
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

盘子 in our stories

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  • 主人王总看他的盘子又空了，以为他还没吃饱，马上叫服务员：“再加两个菜！”

    zhǔrén Wáng zǒng kàn tā de pánzi yòu kōng le yǐwéi tā hái méi chī bǎo mǎshàng jiào fúwùyuán zài jiā liǎng gè cài

    Seeing his plate empty again, the host, Mr Wang, thought he was still hungry and called the waiter at once: "Two more dishes!"

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

Stories using 盘子

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).