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玩

wán

play

Phonosemantic compound. 𤣩 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound.

Components
𤣩 meaning component

𤣩  Meaning component

yù

  

jade

𤣩 is a component form of 玉.

元 sound component

元  Sound component

yuán

  

first

Evolution

玩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
玩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
玩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

玩  

wán

play with, joke, enjoy; to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment

玩 (翫) 

wán

variant of 玩[wán]; Taiwan pr. [wàn]

Most common words with 玩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

玩

to play

玩笑

to joke

开玩笑

to play a joke

玩家

player (of a game)

好玩

amusing

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ˤo[n]-s

ngwanH

wàn

plaything


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 88.8195% of movies

271st most common character in movies

1072nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+73A9

Shuowen

“玩，弄也。从玉，元聲。貦，玩或从貝。”


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