DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

盤

简盘 · 繁盤

Mandarin · pinyin pán

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)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

盤: Look up this written character
盘: pán · tray, plate, dish; examine

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2 · pan2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

1character link21same-tone records

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

盤 · find source passages ↗ · 盘 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 21 senses · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

pun4

Cantonese word readings for 盤. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character

tray; plate; dish
any object shaped like a tray or plate
(obsolete, historical) washbasin (broad and shallow water-vessel for ablution)
to check; to examine
to check the number or amount of; to calculate
to twist; to coil up
to build (by laying bricks, stones, etc.)
to transfer the ownership of
to transport; to carry
(finance, chiefly in compounds) financial market
(Hong Kong) property on sale (Classifier: 個／个)
(computing, chiefly Mainland China) disk; hard drive; storage device
Classifier for dishes, millstones, etc.
Classifier for things that coil: reel
Classifier for sessions of board or ball game.
(board games) match; game
(Cantonese) Classifier for businesses or accounts.
(Mainland China Hokkien) having more benefits than harms; worthwhile; profitable; being value for money; affordable
(Taiwanese Mandarin, slang, of goods) overpriced
(Shanghainese) to flirt with; to pick up
a surname

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack