玩世

Chinese

		curios; antiques; to play curios; antiques; to play; to amuse oneself	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
simp. and trad. (玩世)		玩	世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wánshì, wànshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ ㄕˋ, ㄨㄢˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶ sai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, colloquial; standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wánshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wánshìh
    • Wade–Giles: wan²-shih⁴
    • Yale: wán-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanshyh
    • Palladius: ваньши (vanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, literary; variant in Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wànshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wànshìh
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: wàn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannshyh
    • Palladius: ваньши (vanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁶ sai³
    • Yale: wuhn sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²² sɐi̯³³/

Verb

玩世

1. (literary) to despise worldly affairs; to be unruly

Derived terms

• 玩世不恭 (wánshìbùgōng)
• 玩世不羈／玩世不羁