盘 — tray; plate; dish
tray; plate; dish; market prices; disk; to coil
- Pinyin
- pán
- Strokes
- 11
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 盘: 11 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 盘 in the HSK syllabus: 9
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 盘子pánzitray; plate; dishHSK 3
- 键盘jiànpánkeyboardHSK 5
- 盘pántray; plate; dish; market prices; disk; to coilHSK 6
- 方向盘fāngxiàngpánsteering wheelHSK 7–9
- 光盘guāngpáncompact disc; DVD; CD-ROMHSK 7–9
- 盘算pánsuanto plot; to scheme; to calculateHSK 7–9
- 盘旋pánxuánto spiral; to circle; to go around; to hoverHSK 7–9
- 算盘suànpánabacus; plan; schemeHSK 7–9
- 硬盘yìngpánhard diskHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.