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Mythic Mandarin

完 (wán): meaning and stroke order

完 (wán) means to finish, to be over, whole, complete, entire.

完

Simplified
完
Traditional
完 (same form)
Pinyin
wán

Stroke order of 完

完

  • wán to finish; to be over
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 完

  1. wán
    • to finish
    • to be over
    • whole
    • complete
    • entire

Radical and structure

完
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 7 strokes · 宀 on top, 元 below

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 完

完 in our stories

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  • 最后,一盘夫妻肺片都被她一个人吃完了。

    zuìhòu yì pán fūqī fèipiàn dōu bèi tā yí gè rén chī wán le

    In the end she eats the whole plate by herself.

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 老师给他讲了一个故事:几个人比赛画蛇,先画完的人能喝一壶酒。

    lǎoshī gěi tā jiǎng le yí gè gùshi jǐ gè rén bǐsài huà shé xiān huà wán de rén néng hē yì hú jiǔ

    The teacher tells him a story: some men had a snake-drawing race, and the first to finish would get a pot of wine.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

  • 刚开始,她一个都拉不上去,每天练完胳膊疼得连筷子都拿不稳。

    gāng kāishǐ tā yí gè dōu lā bú shàngqu měitiān liàn wán gēbo téng de lián kuàizi dōu ná bù wěn

    At first she couldn't pull herself up even once, and after each session her arms hurt so much she could barely hold her chopsticks.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

Stories using 完

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).