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fan-tan

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See also: fantan

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤番摊 (faan1 taan1, literally repeated divisions).

Noun

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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.
    • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 85:
      He came in an said Pack, we were booked for Macau. When we got there, I played fantan in the Lisboa and he crossed over into Zhongshan.
  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.

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Macanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤番摊 (faan1 taan1, literally repeated divisions); see English entry.

Noun

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fan-tan

  1. fan-tan (Chinese card game)

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