玩 wán / wàn in a sentence
Play (have a good time - enjoy - visit); Antiques
玩 (wán / wàn) means Play (have a good time - enjoy - visit), Antiques. Below are 24 of the 32 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
下午我去朋友家 玩 。
Xiàwǔ wǒ qù péngyou jiā wán.
This afternoon I'm going to a friend's place to hang out.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 玩
孩子们在外面 玩 。
Háizimen zài wàimiàn wán.
The children are playing outside.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 外
昨天 玩 得真痛快。
Zuótiān wán de zhēn tòngkuai.
We had a really good time yesterday.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 痛快
孩子们在沙滩上 玩 。
Háizimen zài shātān shàng wán.
The children are playing on the beach.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 沙滩
弟弟喜欢和我一起 玩 。
Dìdi xǐhuan hé wǒ yìqǐ wán.
My younger brother likes playing with me.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 弟弟
上课的时候别 玩 手机。
Shàng kè de shíhou bié wán shǒujī.
Don't play with your phone during class.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 手机
孩子们喜欢在雪里 玩 。
Háizimen xǐhuan zài xuě lǐ wán.
Children like playing in the snow.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 雪
他喜欢跟大家开 玩 笑。
Tā xǐhuan gēn dàjiā kāi wánxiào.
He likes joking with everyone.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 开玩笑
今天我们 玩 得很开心。
Jīntiān wǒmen wán de hěn kāixīn.
We had a great time today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 开心
一群孩子在广场上 玩 。
Yì qún háizi zài guǎngchǎng shàng wán.
A group of children are playing in the square.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 群
孩子的 玩 具放了一地。
Háizi de wánjù fàng le yí dì.
The child's toys are all over the floor.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 玩具
他在 玩 弄手里的钥匙。
Tā zài wánnòng shǒu lǐ de yàoshi.
He was fiddling with the keys in his hand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 玩弄
不要 玩 弄别人的感情。
Bú yào wánnòng biéren de gǎnqíng.
Do not toy with other people's feelings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 玩弄
这个公园是给儿童 玩 的。
Zhège gōngyuán shì gěi értóng wán de.
This park is for children to play in.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 儿童
他给儿子买了一个 玩 具。
Tā gěi érzi mǎi le yí ge wánjù.
He bought his son a toy.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 玩具
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From the graded readers
妈妈说：“在家也可以 玩 。”
māma shuō:" zàijiā yě kěyǐ wán / wàn."
Mum said, "You can have fun at home too."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
上个星期天，我们本来要去公园 玩 。
shànggexīngqī tiān, wǒmen běnlái yāo qù gōngyuán wán / wàn.
Last Sunday we were supposed to go and play in the park.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
最后弟弟说：“今天比去公园还好 玩 。”
zuìhòu dìdi shuō:" jīntiān bǐ qù gōngyuán hái / huán hǎo / hào wán / wàn."
In the end my brother said, "Today was even more fun than the park."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
我们就在客厅里吃东西、看电影、 玩 游戏。
wǒmen jiù zài kè tīng lǐ chī dōngxī, kàn / kān diànyǐng, wán / wàn yóuxì.
So we ate in the living room, watched a film and played games.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
那条消息是她十四岁的弟弟发的，本来是开 玩 笑。
nà / nèi tiáo xiāoxi shì tā shísì suì de / dì dìdi fā de / dì, běnlái shì kāiwánxiào.
The message had been sent by her fourteen-year-old brother, as a joke.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
后来有一天，另一个朋友告诉我：那天小林的手机被弟弟拿去 玩 了。
hòulái yǒu yī tiān, lìngyī gè péngyou gàosu wǒ: nà / nèi tiān xiǎo lín de / dì shǒujī bèi dìdi ná qù wán / wàn le / liǎo / liào.
Then one day another friend told me that Xiaolin's phone had been taken by her younger brother that day.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
玩 appears in 32 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 玩
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 玩
How is 玩 used in a sentence?
This page shows 32 sentences using 玩 (wán / wàn, "Play (have a good time - enjoy - visit), Antiques"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 玩 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 玩 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 玩 an HSK word?
Yes — 玩 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 玩?
The dictionary page for 玩 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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