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  *盤* | 盤* | *盤
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)
HSK 4
tray / plate / dish / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM / CL: , 張|张
HSK 4
keyboard
HSK 5
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
(computer) disk
HSK 7-9
hard disk
HSK 7-9
to plot / to scheme / to calculate
HSK 7-9
abacus / CL: / plan / scheme
HSK 7-9
C drive or default startup drive (computing)
USB flash drive; thumb drive
floppy disk
Holy Grail
turntable / rotary (traffic)
coil in still (used for distilling)
sampler platter / appetizer platter
USB flash drive; thumb drive
(soccer) to dribble
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
pelvis (Tw)
to coil (around sth) / to twine / to weave (basketwork)
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
telephone dial
to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit
to commence trading (stock market)
to interrogate / to question (at a roadblock)
market close
dishes / crockery / plates and cups
chassis
disk
coiled / entwined / tortuous
chessboard
tray / salver / pallet
Yingpan, common place name ("army camp") / place near Jintian village 金田村 in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851 / place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣|新丰县 traditional camping place of brigands / Yingpan township, place name / Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi / Yingpan township in Yunnan / (many others)
military camp / nomadic camp
compass
intervertebral disk
the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard / fixed opinion / solid idea / decisive plan
to sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
overall / comprehensive
turntable / gramophone record
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
cross-legged
frisbee
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
to sit cross-legged / to sit in the lotus position
keyboard instrument (piano, organ etc)
cold plate / cold meats
pachinko
placenta
fruit plate; fruit platter
lit. small abacus / fig. selfish calculations / bean-counting
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
variant of 蹣跚|蹒跚
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year / (of a business) to be profitable / (of a stock market) to rise / (sport) to win one's first match of a competition
lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
capstan
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
Liupanshui, prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省
chuck (for a drill etc)
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
lit. to put everything out including the tray / to reveal everything / to make a clean breast of it all
to interrogate and get to the bottom of sth
(loanword) penicillin
lower millstone / tray of a mill
liquidation
(sports) to dribble
to take stock / to make an inventory
twining mountain road
to compute on the abacus / (fig.) to calculate / to plan / to scheme
to occupy illegally / to seize (territory) / to entrench (oneself)
roulette
platter
chessboard layout / (fig.) overall situation
to coil hair into a bun / hair worn in bun / turban / hair ornament / to interrogate
a plateful / comprehensive / the full works (e.g. a banquet) / the full price
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
to interrogate / to cross-examine / to inquire
travel expenses / fare / traveling allowance
distributor / wholesaler / middleman
to exploit / to practice usury
(of a person) objectionable / (of two people) to find each other disagreeable
twisted / spiral / uneven stones
to sell up / to wind up a business
dial (e.g. of a radio etc)
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
intertwined (of tree roots or branches) / fig. an intricate matter
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
meter dial / watch face
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
going around a mountain
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
to buy a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets / to sell a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets
disk drive
balance consisting of steelyard with a pan / CL: 臺|台

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