English Explanatory Dictionary

fan-tan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  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.

Word forms

fan-tan fantan

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).

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