盘 / 盤
pán
Meaning
- tray · plate · dish
- (bound form) market prices
- (bound form) disk
- to coil (a rope, pigtail and so on)
- to check · to examine · to investigate
- to transfer · to sell (property) · to shift · to move (something big and heavy)
- classifier for things resembling a plate or dish · classifier for coils · classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis and so on)
Example sentences
我的盘子在哪?
我的盤子在哪?
wǒ de pán zi zài nǎ?
Where is my plate?
我们有多少个盘子？
我們有多少個盤子？
wǒ men yǒu duō shǎo gè pán zi？
How many plates do we have?
软盘是硬盘的前身。
軟盤是硬盤的前身。
ruǎn pán shì yìng pán de qián shēn。
Floppy disks were the precursor to hard disks.