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Kanji Detail for 玩 - "play, enjoy, toy"

  • Meaning

    玩 means "play, enjoy, toy."

    1. Play with - To amuse oneself; to toy with.

    2. Enjoy - To take pleasure in; to appreciate.

    3. Trifle - To treat without seriousness.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    play; take pleasure in; trifle with; make sport of

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    play with, joke, enjoy

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to play with, to joke, to entertain

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To play with. (Book of Documents) "Playing with people loses virtue. Playing with things loses ambition." Objects for play are called 玩具 (toys), 玩好 (playthings). Antiques are called 古玩. Rare objects are called 珍玩. | To study. The meaning of savoring and researching. As in 玩索 (to ponder). The character is also written as 翫.
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