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算盘

suàn pán

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 算盤 Measure word 把

算盘 (suàn pán) means "abacus; plan; scheme". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 算盘 means

1. abacus
2. plan
3. scheme

The characters in 算盘

• 算suànto calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid…
• 盘pántray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing; bound form) disk

Words containing 算盘

• 如意算盘rú yì suàn páncounting one's chickens before they are hatched
• 小算盘xiǎo suàn pánlit. small abacus; fig. selfish calculations; bean-counting
• 打算盘dǎ suàn pánto compute on the abacus; (fig.) to calculate; to plan
• 打小算盘dǎ xiǎo suàn pánlit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly…

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