玩 (wán): meaning and stroke order
玩 (wán) means to play, to have fun, to trifle with, toy, sth used for amusement.
玩
- Simplified
- 玩
- Traditional
- 玩, 翫
- Pinyin
- wán
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Stroke order of 玩
玩
- wán to play; to have fun
- wán variant of 玩[wan2]; Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 翫
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Meaning of 玩
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wán
- to play
- to have fun
- to trifle with
- toy
- sth used for amusement
- curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4])
- to keep sth for entertainment
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wán
Traditional 翫
- variant of 玩[wan2]
- Taiwan pr. [wan4]
Radical and structure
- 玩
- Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 8 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 元 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 玩
- 玩具 wán jù plaything; toy
- 玩笑 wán xiào to joke; joke
- 玩儿 wán r to play; to have fun
- 好玩儿 hǎo wán r erhua variant of 好玩[hao3 wan2]
玩 in our stories
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女娃从小就向往大海。有一天，她一个人划着小船去东海玩，没想到突然起了大风，小船被巨浪打翻，她再也没有回来。
Nǚwá cóngxiǎo jiù xiàngwǎng dàhǎi yǒu yì tiān tā yí gè rén huá zhe xiǎochuán qù Dōng Hǎi wán méi xiǎngdào tūrán qǐ le dà fēng xiǎochuán bèi jùlàng dǎfān tā zài yě méiyǒu huílai
From childhood Nüwa longed for the sea. One day she rowed alone out onto the Eastern Sea to play; unexpectedly a gale blew up, a huge wave overturned the boat, and she never came back.
From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 玩
- Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).