"fan-tan" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤/番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|yue|番攤|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=repeated divisions|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Cantonese 番攤/番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”), {{bor+|en|yue|番攤|lit=repeated divisions}} Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤/番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|nolinkhead=1}} fan-tan (uncountable)
  1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Gambling Translations (a specific gambling game where objects are counted in sets of four): [Hokkien] (Chinese), (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 番攤 (Chinese Cantonese), 番摊 (faan¹ taan¹) (Chinese Cantonese), ធួ (thuə) (Khmer), ថួ (thuə) (Khmer), ຖົ່ວ (thūa) (Lao), capona (Tagalog), เล่นถั่ว (len thua) (Thai), กำถั่ว (kam thua) (Thai), ถั่ว (thua) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-fan-tan-en-noun-HtMPF3pJ Disambiguation of Gambling: 68 32 Disambiguation of 'a specific gambling game where objects are counted in sets of four': 62 38
  2. A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Card games
    Sense id: en-fan-tan-en-noun-J20Kha5e Disambiguation of Card games: 27 73 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fantan

Alternative forms

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