fan-tan

== English == === Alternative forms === fantan === Etymology === Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 / 番摊 (faan1 taan1, literally “repeated divisions”). === Noun === fan-tan (uncountable) 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. 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. ==== Translations ==== == Macanese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 / 番摊 (faan1 taan1, literally “repeated divisions”); see English entry. === Noun === fan-tan fan-tan (Chinese card game) ==== Derived terms ==== fantanéro (“someone addicted to fan-tan”) ==== Related terms ==== faichista === References === https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm