(wán) - finished, done, complete in Mandarin

wán

Traditional: 完

HSK 3

#419 of 5,000 Core 1000

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yè？

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.

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Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 完.

完全wán quáncompletely, entirely, totally 完成wán chéngto complete, to finish, to accomplish 完美wán měiperfect

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This word is part of lesson 9.