盤盤

Chinese

		dish; tray; to build dish; tray; to build; to check; to examine; to transfer; (a measure word used for dishes of food or coils of wire); to coil	dish; tray; to build dish; tray; to build; to check; to examine; to transfer; (a measure word used for dishes of food or coils of wire); to coil
trad. (盤盤)		盤	盤
simp. (盘盘)		盘	盘

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pánpán

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄢˊ ㄆㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pun⁴ pun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pánpán
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄢˊ ㄆㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pánpán
    • Wade–Giles: pʻan²-pʻan²
    • Yale: pán-pán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: parnparn
    • Palladius: паньпань (panʹpanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰän³⁵ pʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pun⁴ pun⁴
    • Yale: pùhn pùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pun⁴ pun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pun⁴ pun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːn²¹ pʰuːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ban ban

Rime
Character	盤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	薄官切
Baxter	ban
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwan/
Li Rong	/buɑn/
Wang Li	/buɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pun4

Adjective

盤盤

1. (literary) spiraling

   • 盤盤焉，囷囷焉，蜂房水渦，矗不知其幾千萬落。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     盘盘焉，囷囷焉，蜂房水涡，矗不知其几千万落。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 825, Du Mu, 阿房宮賦

     Pánpán yān, qūnqūn yān, fēngfáng shuǐwō, chù bùzhī qí jǐ qiān wàn luò. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): pan² pan^2-1

• Eastern Min (BUC): buàng-*buàng

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• Mandarin
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: pan² pan^2-1
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: panpan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰan²¹ pʰan²¹⁻⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buàng-*buàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puaŋ⁵³⁻³³ puaŋ⁵³/

Noun

盤盤

1. (dialectal Mandarin, Eastern Min) plate
2. (Sichuanese) face; shape of one's face

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 盤子 (“dish; plate”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		皿
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		盤子
Mandarin	Beijing	盤子
	Taiwan	盤子
	Harbin	盤子
	Yantai (Muping)	盤子, 盤兒
	Jinan	盤子
	Luoyang	盤兒, 盤子
	Wanrong	盤子
	Xi'an	盤子
	Yinchuan	盤子
	Xining	盤子, 盤盤
	Ürümqi	盤子
	Wuhan	盤子
	Chengdu	盤子, 盤盤兒, 盤盤
	Guiyang	盤子
	Liuzhou	盤子
	Xuzhou	盤子, 盤兒
	Yangzhou	盤子, 碟子
	Nanjing	盤兒, 盤子
	Malaysia	盤
	Singapore	盤
Cantonese	Guangzhou	碟
	Hong Kong	碟
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	碟
	Singapore (Guangfu)	碟
Gan	Nanchang	盤子
	Lichuan	盤兒
	Pingxiang	碟子, 盤子
Hakka	Meixian	盤仔, 碟仔
	Yudu	盆
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	盤仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	盤仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	盤仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	盤
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	盤仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	盤
Huizhou	Jixi	盤
Jin	Taiyuan	盤子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	盤
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	盤, 盤盤
	Matsu	盤盤
Southern Min	Xiamen	盤仔, 盤, 𥐵仔
	Quanzhou	盤仔, 盤, 𥐵仔
	Zhangzhou	盤仔, 盤, 𥐵仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	盤
	Singapore (Hokkien)	盤
	Manila (Hokkien)	𥐵
	Medan (Hokkien)	盤
	Chaozhou	盤
	Shantou	盤, 碟
	Shantou (Chenghai)	盤
	Jieyang	盤
	Singapore (Teochew)	盤
	Leizhou	盤
	Wenchang	盤
	Haikou	盤
	Qionghai	盤
	Singapore (Hainanese)	盤
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	碟
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	盤
Wu	Shanghai	盆子, 大盆子, 盤子, 盤
	Shanghai (Chongming)	盆子
	Suzhou	盆子, 盤子
	Wuxi	盤子
	Danyang	盤子, 盤
	Hangzhou	盤兒
	Ningbo	盆子, 盤子
	Wenzhou	盤
	Jinhua	盤兒, 盤
Xiang	Changsha	盤子

• (face): 臉盤／脸盘 (liǎnpán)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): pan² pan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: pan² pan²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: panpan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰan²¹ pʰan²¹/

Adverb

盤盤

1. (Sichuanese) every time

Synonyms

• 每次 (měicì)