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.

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Words with 盘

通盘

tōng pán

across the board

银盘

yín pán

silver plate

表盘

biǎo pán

variant of 表盤|表盘[biao3 pan2]

键盘

jiàn pán

keyboard

键盘侠

jiàn pán xiá

keyboard warrior

键盘乐器

jiàn pán yuè qì

keyboard instrument (piano, organ etc)

钟表盘

zhōng biǎo pán

clockface

闪存盘

shǎn cún pán

USB flash drive; thumb drive

开盘

kāi pán

to commence trading (stock market)

开盘汇率

kāi pán huì lǜ

opening exchange rate

开红盘

kāi hóng pán

(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year

云盘

yún pán

cloud storage service

More characters with 舟