(wán) - finished, done, complete in Mandarin
wánTraditional: 完
Translation
finished, done, complete
Word origin
The character 完 (wán) is a phono-semantic compound: the 宀 'roof' radical sits above 元 (yuán), which supplies the sound, and the word means complete or finished.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 宀 (roof radical) + 元 (yuán, phonetic)
Stroke order
完
Examples
业？
Have you finished the homework?
。
The food is all gone.
。
Time is almost up.
。
The film has just finished.
。
He left right after finishing breakfast.
完 (wán) - finished, done, complete.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 完.
Used in
Grammar articles
(8)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin: 我去商店买东西 and Stacking Verbs in Sequence
Topic-Comment Structure in Mandarin: Fronting 这本书我看过 and Why Word Order Bends
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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