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swan-pan

swan-pan 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

Forms of swan-pan

pluralswan-pans

Questions about swan-pan

What is swan-pan the dated form of?
Swan-pan is the dated form of suanpan.

Words near swan-pan in the dictionary

  1. swan-dive
  2. swan-dived
  3. swan-dives
  4. swan-diving
  5. swan-necked
  6. swan-pan
  7. swan-pans
  8. swan-shot
  9. swan-song
  10. swan-songs
  11. SWANA

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