玩
wán
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To play, have fun, or go out and enjoy yourself. Children 玩 with toys and adults 玩手机 'are on their phones', but it also covers outings and visits: 来我家玩 'come over to my place'. A ball game or a musical instrument usually takes another verb.
Chơi, vui chơi, đi đâu đó cho vui. Trẻ con 玩 đồ chơi, người lớn 玩手机 (chơi điện thoại); 来我家玩 là “đến nhà tôi chơi”, đúng như cách nói của tiếng Việt. Chơi bóng hay chơi nhạc cụ thì tiếng Trung thường dùng động từ khác.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “玩” mean?
To play, have fun, or go out and enjoy yourself. Children 玩 with toys and adults 玩手机 'are on their phones', but it also covers outings and visits: 来我家玩 'come over to my place'. A ball game or a musical instrument usually takes another verb.
Is “玩” formal or informal?
玩 is generally neutral.