马桶 馬桶 mǎ tǒng chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl syn 淘金 táo jīn to pan for gold / to try to make a fortune 贵姓 貴姓 guì xìng what is your surname? / (May I ask) your surname? syn 便盆 biàn pén bed pan 平底锅 平底鍋 píng dǐ guō frying pan syn 昙花一现 曇花一現 tán huā yī xiàn lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived syn 锅子 鍋子 guō zi pot / pan / wok / cauldron / pot-shaped thing / hotpot syn 锅巴 鍋巴 guō bā guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan) syn 火盆 huǒ pén brazier / fire pan / hibachi 大班 dà bān tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade syn 不粘锅 不粘鍋 bù zhān guō non-stick pan 炒锅 炒鍋 chǎo guō wok / frying pan 潘金莲 潘金蓮 pān jīn lián Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅 泛珠三角 fàn zhū sān jiǎo Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China 板面 板麵 bǎn miàn pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia 龙井茶 龍井茶 lóng jǐng chá Longjing tea, aka Dragon Well tea, a high-quality pan-roasted green tea from the area of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang 潘岳 pān yuè Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[Pan1 An1], prominent Western Jin poet, also famous for his good looks, such that his name became a byword for "extremely handsome man" 般 pán see 般樂|般乐[pan2 le4] syn 板 闆 pàn to catch sight of in a doorway (old) syn 胖 pán healthy / at ease 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 判 pàn (bound form) to differentiate / to distinguish / (bound form) clearly (different) / to judge / to decide / to grade / (of a judge) to sentence syn 锅 鍋 guō pot / pan / wok / cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1] syn 煎 jiān to pan fry / to sauté syn 朴 piáo surname Piao / Korean surname (Park, Pak or Bak) / also pr. [Pu2] syn 炮 páo to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan) syn 盼 pàn to hope for / to long for / to expect syn 攀 pān to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status syn 泛 fàn (bound form) general / non-specific / extensive / pan- / to flood / (literary) to float about / to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc) syn 扳 pān variant of 攀[pan1] syn 叛 pàn to betray / to rebel / to revolt syn 磐 pán firm / stable / rock syn 烙 lào to brand / to iron / to bake (in a pan) syn 拚 pàn to strive for / to struggle / to disregard / to reject 蟠 pán to coil syn 畔 pàn (bound form) side / edge / boundary syn 铛 鐺 chēng frying pan / griddle syn 彼得潘 bǐ dé pān Peter Pan, the novel character 泮 pàn (literary) to melt / to dissolve 煎锅 煎鍋 jiān guō frying pan 炖锅 燉鍋 dùn guō stew pot / stew pan / saucepan 平锅 平鍋 píng guō pan 秤盘 秤槃 chèng pán the tray or pan of a steelyard balance 汉姓 漢姓 hàn xìng a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group 蹒 蹣 pán used in 蹣跚|蹒跚[pan2shan1] / Taiwan pr. [man2] syn 袢 pàn used in 袷袢[qia1 pan4] / variant of 襻[pan4] 畚 běn a basket or pan used for earth, manure etc 襻 pàn button loop / sth similar to a button loop (shoe strap, basket handle etc) / to tie together / to stitch together syn 磻 pán name of a river in Shaanxi 铫 銚 diào pan with a long handle syn 那 nā surname Na syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 区 區 ōu surname Ou 单 單 shàn surname Shan syn 某人 mǒu rén someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) syn 华 華 huà Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi / surname Hua syn 姓名 xìng míng surname and given name / full name syn 巴尔的摩 巴爾的摩 bā ěr dì mó Baltimore (place name, surname etc) 尼克松 ní kè sōng Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon 西门 西門 xī mén two-character surname Ximen 中村 zhōng cūn Nakamura (Japanese surname) 海德 hǎi dé Hyde (surname) 山下 shān xià Yamashita (Japanese surname) syn 波罗 波羅 bō luó Polo (car made by Volkswagen) / surname Polo 铃木 鈴木 líng mù Suzuki (Japanese surname) 布尔 布爾 bù ěr Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean 田中 tián zhōng Tianzhong Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1hua4 Xian4], Taiwan / Tanaka (Japanese surname) 山本 shān běn Yamamoto (Japanese surname) 井上 jǐng shàng Inoue (Japanese surname, pr. "ee-no-oo-ay") 山田 shān tián Yamada (Japanese surname) 莱特 萊特 lái tè Wright (surname) 考克斯 kǎo kè sī Cox (surname) 惠特曼 huì tè màn Whitman (surname) / Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet and journalist 班克斯 bān kè sī Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist) 强生 強生 qiáng shēng Johnson (surname) / Johnson & Johnson (company) 老总 老總 lǎo zǒng boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer syn 小林 xiǎo lín Kobayashi (Japanese surname) 施密特 shī mì tè Schmidt or Schmitt (surname) 和田 hé tián see 和田地區|和田地区[He2tian2 Di4qu1] / Wada (Japanese surname and place name) 高桥 高橋 gāo qiáo Takahashi (Japanese surname) 南宫 南宮 nán gōng two-character surname Nangong / Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2tai2], Hebei 大和 dà hé Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc 松本 鬆本 sōng běn Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name) 伊藤 yī téng Itō or Itoh, Japanese surname / Ito-Yokado (supermarket) (abbr. for 伊藤洋華堂|伊藤洋华堂[Yi1teng2 Yang2hua2tang2]) 邱吉尔 邱吉爾 qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill 渡边 渡邊 dù biān Watanabe (Japanese surname) 吉田 jí tián Yoshida (Japanese surname and place name) 独孤 獨孤 dú gū two-character surname Dugu 诸葛 諸葛 zhū gě two-character surname Zhuge / Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2] 桥本 橋本 qiáo běn Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name) 司马 司馬 sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima 夏侯 xià hóu two-character surname Xiahou 弗格森 fú gé sēn Ferguson (surname) 木村 mù cūn Kimura (Japanese surname) 博世 bó shì Bosch (surname) / Bosch, German technology company 轩辕 軒轅 xuān yuán two-character surname Xuanyuan syn 平野 píng yě Hirano (Japanese surname) 藤森 téng sēn Fujimori (Japanese surname) / Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (1938-), president of Peru 1990-2000 