(wán) - to play, to have fun, to visit in Mandarin
wánTraditional: 玩
Translation
to play, to have fun, to visit
Word origin
玩 (wán) means 'to play, to have fun'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 王/玉 (jade) radical for meaning, originally toying with a jade object, and 元 (yuán) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 王/玉 (jade radical) + 元 (yuán, phonetic)
Stroke order
玩
Examples
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The children are playing in the park.
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Where do you want to go for fun at the weekend?
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Come and hang out at my place.
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At the weekend we are going to the park to play.
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He enjoys playing video games.
玩 (wán) - to play, to have fun, to visit.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 玩.
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