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Kanji Detail for 玩 - "play with, trifle"

玩

  • Meaning

    玩 means "play with, trifle." Also associated with enjoy.

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

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

    3. Trifle - To treat without seriousness.

  • Words using 玩

    • 玩具 おもちゃ Listen toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything

  • Four-character idioms with 玩

    • 熟読玩味 じゅくどくがんみ Listen reading carefully with appreciation
    • 玩物喪志 がんぶつそうし Listen forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal

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    • Verified meaning: play with, trifle
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: enjoy

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

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    gan(ガン) ガン

  • Kunyomi

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    mochiaso.bu(もちあそ-ぶ) もちあそ-ぶ

    moteaso.bu(もてあそ-ぶ) もてあそ-ぶ

  • Strokes

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    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    玉 王 (tama・tamahen・o・ohen)

  • Related Keywords

    play with enjoy trifle savor tease toy amusement appreciate diversion entertainment frolic fun game hobby merriment novelty pastime pleasure recreation trinket whimsy

Sentences including 玩

  • That toy is made out of wood.

  • These toys are suitable for girls.

  • That toy is made of wood.

  • She keeps a parrot as a pet.

  • There are a lot of toys here.

  • The factory manufactures toys.

  • This factory produces toys.

  • I don't remember having had any toys when I was young.

  • She beat off a big snake with a plastic toy bat.

  • I said that I don't remember having had any toys, and I also don't remember having had any snacks.

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More kanji with the radical 玉 王 (tama・tamahen・o・ohen)

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