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平板
Mandarin · pinyin píng bǎn
Meanings
- slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate
- flat; level
- (fig.) dull; monotonous
- tablet computer (abbr. for 平板電腦 píng bǎn diàn nǎo)
- phablet (large smartphone combining features of phone and tablet) (abbr. for 平板手機 píng bǎn shǒu jī)
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2–3 · ping2 ban3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ping4 baan2
Cantonese word readings for 平板. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (countable) flat board; flat sheet (Classifier: 塊／块 m)
- (computing) short for 平板電腦／平板电脑 (píngbǎn diànnǎo, “tablet computer”) (Classifier: 臺／台 m; 塊／块 m)
- (Hakka) one of the traditional Hakka mountain song tunes
adj
- (countable) flat; smooth; level
- (countable) dull; boring
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