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schwanpan

schwanpan is the dated form of suanpan.

Meaning of suanpan

Noun

suanpan (plural suanpans)

  1. A Chinese abacus with two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads on each rod in the bottom deck.
    • The number of rods in the traditional suanpan is usually odd, and never less than nine.2014, Yoshihide Igarashi, Tom Altman, Mariko Funada, Barbara Kamiyama, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective, page 64

Questions about schwanpan

What is schwanpan the dated form of?
Schwanpan is the dated form of suanpan.

Words near schwanpan in the dictionary

  1. schwannomas
  2. schwannomata
  3. schwannomatoses
  4. schwannomatosis
  5. schwannomin
  6. schwanpan
  7. Schwans
  8. schwar
  9. Schwark
  10. Schwarks
  11. schwarma

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