盘子 盤子 pán zi tray / plate / dish / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 车牌 車牌 chē pái license plate 牌照 pái zhào (business) license / vehicle license / car registration / license plate 底片 dǐ piàn negative / photographic plate syn 磨坊 mò fáng mill syn 板块 板塊 bǎn kuài slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc 铜板 銅板 tóng bǎn copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin syn 钢板 鋼板 gāng bǎn steel plate syn 标牌 標牌 biāo pái label / tag / sign / (brass etc) inscribed plate syn 平板 píng bǎn slab / flat board / (engineering) surface plate / flat / level / (fig.) dull / monotonous / abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑[ping2ban3 dian4nao3] and 平板手機|平板手机[ping2ban3 shou3ji1] syn 铁板 鐵板 tiě bǎn iron panel / hot iron plate for fast grilling (Japanese: teppan) 门牌 門牌 mén pái door plate / house number 铭牌 銘牌 míng pái nameplate / data plate (on a machine) 冷盘 冷盤 lěng pán cold plate / cold meats syn 纺织厂 紡織廠 fǎng zhī chǎng textile factory / cotton mill 车号 車號 chē hào vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number) 挂牌 掛牌 guà pái lit. to hang up a plate / to open up for business / listed (on stock market) syn 电炉 電爐 diàn lú electric stove / hot plate 镀金 鍍金 dù jīn to gold-plate / to gild / (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special syn 果盘 果盤 guǒ pán fruit plate / fruit platter 厂子 廠子 chǎng zi (coll.) factory / mill / yard / depot syn 楼板 樓板 lóu bǎn floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) 顶板 頂板 dǐng bǎn roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus 制版 製版 zhì bǎn to make a plate (printing) 图版 圖版 tú bǎn printing plate bearing an image (illustration, photo etc) / print made with such a plate 薄板 báo bǎn thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3] 印刷版 yìn shuā bǎn printing plate / printed version (of a digital publication) / printing (as in "1st printing" etc) 平版 píng bǎn lithographic plate 凸版 tū bǎn relief printing plate 上牌 shàng pái to obtain a license plate 号牌 號牌 hào pái license plate / number plate 靓号 靚號 liàng hào desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits) 球磨机 球磨機 qiú mó jī ball mill 鳞甲 鱗甲 lín jiǎ scale / plate of armor syn 轧机 軋機 zhá jī steel rolling mill syn 研磨机 硏磨機 yán mó jī grain mill 磨盘 磨盤 mò pán lower millstone / tray of a mill syn 金属板 金屬板 jīn shǔ bǎn metal plate 凹版 āo bǎn intaglio printing plate (or a print made with it) 纱厂 紗廠 shā chǎng cotton mill / textile factory 炼钢厂 煉鋼廠 liàn gāng chǎng steel mill 底版 dǐ bǎn (photography) negative / photographic plate / (printing) plate / block syn 轧钢厂 軋鋼廠 zhá gāng chǎng a steel rolling mill 牌 pái signboard / plaque / plate / tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]) / brand / trademark (CL:個|个[ge4]) / mahjong tile / domino / playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]) / (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2pai2] and 曲牌[qu3pai2]) syn 盘 盤 pán tray / plate / dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check / to examine / to investigate / to transfer / to sell (property) / to shift / to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc) syn 碟 dié dish / plate syn 坊 fáng workshop / mill / Taiwan pr. [fang1] syn 镀 鍍 dù to plate (with gold, silver etc) / (prefix) -plated syn 钸 鈽 bū metal plate 桁 héng pole plate / purlin (cross-beam in roof) / ridge-pole syn 铣 銑 xǐ to mill (machining) / Taiwan pr. [xian3] syn 钣 鈑 bǎn metal plate / sheet of metal 本垒 本壘 běn lěi (baseball) home base / home plate 碾磨 niǎn mó to mill / to grind / grinding stone 轧钢机 軋鋼機 zhá gāng jī a steel rolling mill 纸浆厂 紙漿廠 pulp mill 鋈 wù -plated / to plate syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 硙 磑 wèi (literary) grindstone / (literary) to mill 磑 wèi mill 鉼 bǐng plate 执牛耳 執牛耳 zhí niú ěr to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony) 飞片 flying metal plate / flying plate / flyer plate / plate 磨子 mò zǐ mill / grain mill / millstone syn 磨子 mò zi mill / grain mill / millstone syn 汽车号牌 汽車號牌 qì chē hào pái vehicle registration plate / license plate 号码牌 號碼牌 hào mǎ pái number plate / car license plate / CL:條|条[tiao2],塊|块[kuai4],片[pian4] 骺软骨板 骺軟骨板 hóu ruǎn gǔ bǎn epiphyseal plate / growth plate (bone) 往复式孔板塔 reciprocating plate column / reciprocating plate reactor 增生板块边界 增生板塊邊界 accreting plate boundary / divergent plate boundary / divergent boundary 离散板块边界 離散板塊邊界 accreting plate boundary / divergent plate boundary / divergent boundary 燃料板 rán liào pàn fuel plate / plate 构造板块 構造板塊 tectonic plate / lithospheric plate 摆盘 擺盤 bǎi pán to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel 棒磨机 棒磨機 bàng mó jī rod mill 尾水 wěi shuǐ tailwater / outflow (from mill or power plant) 水碾 shuǐ niǎn water mill 狼奔豕突 láng bēn shǐ tū the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom) / crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts syn 碾坊 niǎn fáng grain mill syn 礲 lóng variant of 礱|砻, to grind / to mill 锯木厂 鋸木廠 jù mù chǎng sawmill / lumber mill 野鸡大学 野雞大學 yě jī dà xué diploma mill 文凭工厂 wén píng gōng chǎng diploma mill 辊式磨 輥式磨 roller mill 锤碎机 錘碎机 chuí suì jī hammer mill 碎木机 suì mù jī shredder / hog mill / wood processor 冰川穴壶 bīng chuān xué hú moulin / glacier mill 冰川磨 moulin / glacier mill 铀矿厂尾矿 鈾礦廠尾礦 uranium mill tailings 挤来挤去 擠來擠去 jǐ lái jǐ qù to mill about / to jostle 历尽沧桑 歷盡滄桑 lì jìn cāng sāng to have been through the hardships of life / to have been through the mill 糖寮 táng liáo sugar mill 糖房 táng fáng sugar mill 捡到篮里就是菜 撿到籃裡就是菜 jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom) 电磨 電磨 diàn mò electric mill (for grinding wheat etc) 板规 板規 bǎn guī plate gauge 板块构造 板塊構造 bǎn kuài gòu zào plate tectonics 板梁桥 板梁橋 bǎn liáng qiáo plate girder bridge 錶盘 錶盤 biǎo pán dial plate / dial 