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Chinese
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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 |
surname; Sapindus mukurosi
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| trad. (盤桓)
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盤
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桓
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| simp. (盘桓)
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盘
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桓
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| alternative forms
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槃桓
磐桓
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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盤
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桓
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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pán
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huán
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ban ›
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‹ hwan ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁan/
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/*ʷˁar/
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| English
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tray, basin
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pillar; martial-looking
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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盤
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桓
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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232
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14004
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Phonetic
component
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般
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亘
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Rime
group
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元
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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槃
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桓
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Old
Chinese
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/*baːn/
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/*ɡʷaːn/
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| Notes
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籀文槃
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Verb
盤桓
- to walk back and forth; to roam around
- to spiral around; to circle around
- to stay; to stop over
- (figurative) to hesitate; to be indecisive
Synonyms
- (to pace back and forth):
- 停 (tíng)
- 停留 (tíngliú)
- 勾留 (gōuliú)
- 蹲 (figurative)
- 逗 (dòu)
- 逗留 (dòuliú)
- 逋留 (būliú) (literary)
- 駐 / 驻 (zhù) (literary, or in compounds)
- 駐留 / 驻留 (zhùliú)
- 反顧 / 反顾 (fǎngù) (literary)
- 彳亍 (chìchù) (literary, figurative)
- 彷徨 (pánghuáng) (figurative)
- 徘徊 (figurative)
- 拿不定主意 (nábùdìng zhǔyì)
- 游移 (yóuyí)
- 猶疑 / 犹疑 (yóuyí)
- 猶豫 / 犹豫 (yóuyù)
- 疑蟯 / 疑蛲 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 膩 / 腻 (nyi4) (Sichuanese)
- 踟躇 (chíchú)
- 踟躕 / 踟蹰 (chíchú)
- 躊躇 / 踌躇 (chóuchú)
- 巡巡 (xúnxún) (literary)
- 逡巡 (qūnxún) (literary)
- 遲疑 / 迟疑 (chíyí)
Adjective
盤桓
- (Classical) large
Descendants