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swanpan

swanpan 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 swanpan

pluralswanpans

Questions about swanpan

What is swanpan the dated form of?
Swanpan is the dated form of suanpan.

Words near swanpan in the dictionary

  1. swanniest
  2. swanning
  3. Swannington
  4. swannish
  5. swanny
  6. swanpan
  7. swanpans
  8. Swanpool
  9. swans
  10. Swans Crossing
  11. Swanscombe

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