盘

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)

boat (舟) + vessel (皿) = tray or dish

皿 is the semantic anchor, evoking a vessel or container. 舟 (boat) is largely phonetic here, though the image of a flat-bottomed boat carries a faint visual echo of something shallow and open.

舟+皿→盘
皿DishSemantic
舟BoatPhonetic

她把水果放在一个大盘子里。

tā bǎ shuǐguǒ fàng zài yī gè dà pán zi lǐ。

She put the fruit in a large plate.

他们下了两盘棋,结果都是平局。

tā men xià le liǎng pán qí,jiéguǒ dōu shì píngjú。

They played two games of chess, and both ended in a draw.

Words with 盘

方向盘

fāng xiàng pán

steering wheel

磨盘

mò pán

lower millstone

操盘

cāo pán

(finance) (of a fund manager, high-wealth individual etc) to make large trades (in stocks, futures etc)

接盘

jiē pán

(of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business

仪表盘

yí biǎo pán

dashboard

翻盘

fān pán

to make a comeback

六盘山

liù pán shān

Liupan Mountains, mountain range in northern China

楼盘

lóu pán

building under construction

硬盘

yìng pán

hard disk

盘根错节

pán gēn cuò jié

twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky

一盘散沙

yī pán sǎn shā

lit. like a sheet of loose sand

通盘

tōng pán

across the board

More characters with 舟

艚艎艨艋艏艇艉