盘
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)
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #326 U+76D8
How 盘 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
皿 (semantic, “dish”) + 般 (phonetic, bān)
How to remember it
tray · Heisig RSH #1397
舟 boat + dish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 般
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 般 (bān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 般 sound component | bān | sort, manner, kind, class |
| 搬 | bān | to move, to remove, to shift, to transfer |
| 磐 | pán | boulder, large rock; firm, stable |
| 槃 | pán | tray; to rotate, to turn; to search |
| 瘢 | bān | scar, mole |
Words containing 盘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 盘山县 | Pán shān Xiàn | Panshan, a county in Panjin City 盤錦市|盘锦市[Pan2 jin3 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 上不得台盘 | shàng bù dé tái pán | see 上不了檯面|上不了台面[shang4 bu4 liao3 tai2 mian4] |
| 电子盘 | diàn zǐ pán | USB flash drive; thumb drive |
| 盘龙区 | Pán lóng Qū | Panlong, a district of Kunming City 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 盘州市 | Pán zhōu Shì | Panzhou, a county-level city in Liupanshui City 六盤水市|六盘水市[Liu4 pan2 shui3 Shi4], Guizhou |
| 盘子 | pán zi | tray; plate; dish; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 开红盘 | kāi hóng pán | (of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year; (of a business) to b… |
| 盘山 | Pán shān | see 盤山縣|盘山县[Pan2 shan1 Xian4] |
| 盘山 | pán shān | going around a mountain |
| 不对盘 | bù duì pán | (of a person) objectionable; (of two people) to find each other disagreeable |
| 盘头 | pán tóu | to coil hair into a bun; hair worn in bun; turban; hair ornament; to interrogate |
| 中盘 | zhōng pán | middle game (in go or chess); (share trading) mid-session; (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商[zhong1 pan2 … |
| 盘尼西林 | pán ní xī lín | (loanword) penicillin |
| 地盘 | dì pán | domain; territory under one's control; foundation of a building; base of operations; crust… |
| 大盘尾 | dà pán wěi | (bird species of China) greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) |
| 出盘 | chū pán | to sell up; to wind up a business |
| 小盘尾 | xiǎo pán wěi | (bird species of China) lesser racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus remifer) |
| 定盘星 | dìng pán xīng | the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard; fixed opinion; solid idea; decisive plan |
| 盘道 | pán dào | twining mountain road |
| 开盘 | kāi pán | to commence trading (stock market) |