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fan-tan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables
fan--tan
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

Uncountable

noun

A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

fantan (alternative)

Questions

What does fan-tan mean?
A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
Where does fan-tan come from?
Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).

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