HSK 5 · Objects

玩具 wánjù “plaything” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 玩具 means

  1. plaything
  2. toy

How to say 玩具

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale玩wán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale具jù4th tone, falling

玩具 in a sentence

  1. 我的玩具坏了。

    Wǒ de wánjù huài le.

    My toy is broken.

    Sentence #10188666 from Tatoeba

  2. 他给了孩子一个玩具。

    Tā gěi le háizi yí ge wánjù.

    He gave the child a toy.

    Sentence #345873 from Tatoeba

  3. 这个玩具汽车是装电池的。

    Zhè ge wánjù qìchē shì zhuāng diànchí de.

    This toy car takes batteries.

    Sentence #1517478 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 玩具 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 玩 (wán) with each of its parts in a different colour
玩wánto play
  • 王king · wángMeaning part
  • 元first · yuánSound part

王 hints at the meaning (king); 元 (yuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with wán.

Memory aid王 here is jade 玉: turning a piece of jade over in your hands. 元 (yuán) gives the sound: to play.

The character 具 (jù) with each of its parts in a different colour
具jùtool
  • 目eye · mù
  • 一one · yī
  • 八eight · bā

How to write 玩具

玩 8 strokes · 具 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

玩具 (wánjù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 玩具 (wánjù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 玩具

Words with 玩

好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing玩wán · to play开玩笑kāiwánxiào · to play a joke玩弄wánnòng · to play with玩意儿wányìr · thing

Words with 具

家具jiājù · furniture具备jùbèi · to possess具体jùtǐ · specific工具gōngjù · tool文具wénjù · stationery (pens

More words: Objects & Materials

书架shūjià · bookshelf梳子shūzi · comb丝绸sīchóu · silk cloth锁suǒ · to lock文具wénjù · stationery (pens亿yì · 100 million银yín · silver原料yuánliào · raw material

FAQs

玩具 (wánjù) means “plaything” or “toy”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wánjù: wán with a 2nd tone, then jù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 玩具 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wanju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 玩具 from the suggestions. Typing wanju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
玩具 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.