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- Cantonese · borrowed from番攤 /番摊
- English todayfan-tan
Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Cantonese 番攤 /番摊