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Traditional form:

Pinyin (reading):

pán

Definitions:

  • 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)

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