fan-tan

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Origin

• Simplified Chinese: 番摊; traditional Chinese: 番攤; pinyin: fāntān, literally "repeated divisions".