Character Details
| play/have fun (to) | Ascii: — | w381 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 玩 | wán | wahn | 2 | 王 (jade) + 元 (origin) → play | 玩 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The ball was the only thing that people at the beginning of time had to play with. Poor cavemen. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Are you kidding？ | - I had a great time/had a lot of fun | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 98 - 牙 | yá | king | tooth | tooth shape | 牙 雅 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 王 (jade) + 元 (origin) → play | 玉 (semantic origin) | 元 (phonetic) | phonetic from 元 | ||||||||