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suan-pan

suan-pan is the alternative 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

Forms of suan-pan

pluralsuan-pans

Questions about suan-pan

What is suan-pan the alternative form of?
Suan-pan is the alternative form of suanpan.

Words near suan-pan in the dictionary

  1. suaku
  2. suakus
  3. Sual
  4. Sually
  5. Sualocin
  6. suan-pan
  7. suan-pans
  8. Suanen
  9. suanite
  10. suanpan
  11. suanpans

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