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

= + : Martin Luther King asks Willy Walrus for the entrance fee for tonight's concert just inside the anthill's kitchen. Willy Walrus makes fun out of snatching away the coin again just when Martin is about to grab it. When he finally gives it to Martin Luther King, Martin finds out that it's just a toy chocolate coin.
variant of 玩[wan2] / Taiwan pr. [wan4]

= + : Martin Luther King asks Willy Walrus for the entrance fee for tonight's concert just inside the anthill's kitchen. Willy Walrus makes fun out of snatching away the coin again just when Martin is about to grab it. When he finally gives it to Martin Luther King, Martin finds out that it's just a toy chocolate coin.

玩 character breakdown

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

= + : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
to rule / to reign over

Characters with 玩 as component

玩 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 玩

toy / plaything / thing / act / trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc)
plaything / toy
toy figurine / action figure / stuffed animal / doll / (fig.) sb's plaything
to play / to have fun / to hang out
to play with / to toy with / to dally with / to engage in / to resort to
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
interest in dallying / in the mood for playing
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences / to get one's fingers burnt
to trifle / to dally with / to treat casually / to jest
to search for subtle traces / to ponder

Sentences with 玩

dà
wáng
mò
ka̅i
wán
xiào
 
 
mò
ka̅i
wán
xiào