# fan-tan

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. 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.
2. 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.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fan-tan