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

to play (as children do) / to amuse oneself
to play around / to disport oneself
variant of 玩意[wan2 yi4]
to play with fire
to neglect one's duty / dereliction of duty / malpractice
to trifle without respect (idiom); to despise worldly conventions / frivolous
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
to ruminate / to ponder subtleties
to appreciate / to take pleasure in / to enjoy
to know all the ins and outs of sth / to get to know (a place) inside out
to visit (a large number of places) / to tour around (the whole country, the whole city etc)
variant of 玩意兒|玩意儿[wan2 yi4 r5]
playful talk / joking

Sentences with 玩

dà
wáng
mò
ka̅i
wán
xiào
 
 
mò
ka̅i
wán
xiào