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(wán) - to play, to have fun, to visit in Mandarin

wán

Traditional: 玩

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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)

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Examples

The children are playing in the park.

Where do you want to go for fun at the weekend?

Come and hang out at my place.

At the weekend we are going to the park to play.

He enjoys playing video games.

玩 (wán) - to play, to have fun, to visit.

Appears in 4 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 玩.

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