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盘

pán

HSK 3 Character Traditional 盤

What 盘 means

1. tray; plate; dish
2. (finance) (bound form) market prices
3. computingbound formdisk
4. to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
5. to check; to examine; to investigate
6. to transfer; to sell (property)
7. to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
8. classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
9. classifier for coils
10. classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)

Example sentences

• 盘子很脏。
  The plate is dirty.
• 盘子在哪里？
  Where are the plates?
• 你有汤盘吗？
  Do you have a soup dish?
• 把盘子洗了。
  Wash the dishes.
• 我需要盘子。
  I need a plate.
• 我的盘子在哪?
  Wǒ de pánzi zài nǎ?
  Where's my plate?

Words starting with 盘

• 盘子pán zitray; plate; dish
• 盘旋pán xuánto spiral; to circle; to go around
• 盘算pán suànto plot; to scheme; to calculate
• 盘问pán wènto interrogate; to cross-examine; to inquire
• 盘点pán diǎnto make an inventory; to take stock
• 盘腿pán tuǐto sit cross-legged; to sit in the lotus position
• 盘山pán shāngoing around a mountain
• 盘查pán cháto interrogate; to question (at a roadblock)
• 盘古Pán gǔPangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
• 盘踞pán jùto occupy illegally; to seize (territory); to entrench (oneself)
• 盘剥pán bōto exploit; to practice usury
• 盘缠pán chánto twine; to coil
• 盘桓pán huánto pace; to linger; to stay over
• 盘坐pán zuòto sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
• 盘察pán cháto interrogate; to examine
• 盘审pán shěnto interrogate
• 盘带pán dài(soccer) to dribble
• 盘底pán dǐto interrogate and get to the bottom of sth
• 盘店pán diànto buy a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets…
• 盘活pán huóto revitalize (assets, resources etc)
• 盘球pán qiú(sports) to dribble
• 盘盘pán pántwisting and turning
• 盘符pán fúdrive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
• 盘管pán guǎncoil in still (used for distilling)

Words containing 盘

• 光盘guāng páncompact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM
• 键盘jiàn pánkeyboard
• 硬盘yìng pánhard disk
• 楼盘lóu pánbuilding under construction; commercial property; real estate (for sale or rent)
• 方向盘fāng xiàng pánsteering wheel
• 地盘dì pándomain; territory under one's control; foundation of a building
• 开盘kāi pánto commence trading (stock market)
• 磁盘cí pán(computer) disk
• 棋盘qí pánchessboard
• 全盘quán pánoverall; comprehensive
• 托盘tuō pántray; salver; pallet
• 算盘suàn pánabacus; plan; scheme
• 底盘dǐ pánchassis
• 软盘ruǎn pánfloppy disk
• 收盘shōu pánmarket close
• 转盘zhuàn pánturntable; rotary (traffic)
• 胎盘tāi pánplacenta
• 罗盘luó páncompass
• 轮盘lún pánroulette; wheel
• 圆盘yuán pándisk
• 拼盘pīn pánsampler platter; appetizer platter
• 中盘zhōng pánmiddle game (in go or chess); (share trading) mid-session; (abbr. for 中盘商
• 磨盘mò pánlower millstone; tray of a mill
• 如意算盘rú yì suàn páncounting one's chickens before they are hatched

Characters built on 舟

These share the phonetic component 舟 (zhōu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 般bānsort; kind; class
• 舢shānsampan
• 舨bǎnsampan

Characters that look like 盘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 拿náto hold; to seize; to catch
• 凿záo(bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic…
• 惫bèiexhausted
• 羡xiànto envy
• 袁yuánlong robe (old)
• 翕xīto open and close (the mouth etc); friendly; compliant

Sounds the same

Read pán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 磐firm; stable; rock
• 蟠to coil
• 爿classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc…
• 胖healthy; at ease
• 蹒used in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 縏small bag; sack
• 磻name of a river in Shaanxi
• 媻to move
• 幋large scarf
• 柈plate
• 鞶large belt
• 湴to wade through water or mud