玩意

Chinese

		curios; antiques; to play curios; antiques; to play; to amuse oneself	idea; meaning; wish idea; meaning; wish; desire; Italy (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (玩意)		玩	意い
alternative forms		玩藝／玩艺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wányì

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶ ji³ / waan⁴ ji³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wányì
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wányì
    • Wade–Giles: wan²-i⁴
    • Yale: wán-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanyih
    • Palladius: ваньи (vanʹi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän³⁵ i⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (玩意兒じ／玩意儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wányìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ ㄧˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wányìr
    • Wade–Giles: wan²-i⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: wán-yìr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanyell
    • Palladius: ваньир (vanʹir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän³⁵ iə̯ɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁶ ji³ / waan⁴ ji³
    • Yale: wuhn yi / wàahn yi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶ ji³ / waan⁴ ji³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶ yi³ / wan⁴ yi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²² jiː³³/, /waːn²¹ jiː³³/

Noun

玩意

1. (informal) thingamajig; thingie

   這是これ什麼いんも破やぶ爛ただれ玩意兒じ？ [MSC, trad.]
   这是これ什么破やぶ烂玩意儿？ [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè shì shénme pòlàn wányìr? [Pinyin]

   What sort of broken shit is this?

2. (informal) device; contrivance
3. (informal) person; individual (usually used in pejorative senses such as a bad person)

   他た是これ什麼いんも玩意兒じ！ [MSC, trad.]
   他た是これ什么玩意儿！ [MSC, simp.]

   Tā shì shénme wányìr! [Pinyin]

   What kind of louse is he!

   我わが早はや知道ともみち他た不ふ是ぜ個こ好このみ玩意兒じ。 [MSC, trad.]
   我わが早はや知道ともみち他た不ふ是ぜ个好このみ玩意儿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ zǎo zhīdào tā bùshì ge hǎo wányìr. [Pinyin]

   I knew all along that he was no good.

4. (informal) toy; plaything
5. (informal) trick; act

Synonyms

• (thingmajig): 事物じぶつ (shìwù)
• (toy):

Dialectal synonyms of 玩具おもちゃ (“toy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		玩具おもちゃ
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	玩意兒じ, 玩玩意い兒じ, 玩印子こ
	Taiwan	玩具おもちゃ
	Singapore	玩具おもちゃ
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	玩意兒じ
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	耍貨
	Xi'an	耍貨子こ
	Xining	耍貨
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	耍拉兒じ, 玩意兒じ
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	耍拉兒じ
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	耍頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	耍玩意い兒じ, 玩具おもちゃ
	Wuhan	耍貨
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	耍貨
Cantonese	Hong Kong	玩具おもちゃ, 嘢玩
	Taishan	玩具おもちゃ
Gan	Pingxiang	耍個仔こ
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	玩具おもちゃ
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	玩具おもちゃ
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	玩具おもちゃ
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	玩具おもちゃ
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	玩具おもちゃ
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	童わらわ物ぶつ
Jin	Taiyuan	耍貨, 玩兒具ぐ
	Xinzhou	耍貨兒じ
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	客きゃく佻乇
Southern Min	Xiamen	𨑨迌物
	Quanzhou	𨑨迌物
	Zhangzhou	𨑨迌物, 𨑨迌物仔こ
	Taipei (Wanhua)	尪仔物ぶつ
	Kaohsiung	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Yilan	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Changhua (Lukang)	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Taichung	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Taichung (Wuqi)	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Tainan	𨑨迌物
	Taitung	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Hsinchu	𨑨迌物仔こ
	Penghu (Magong)	𨑨迌物
	Penang (Hokkien)	尪公仔こ
	Manila (Hokkien)	𨑨迌物
	Jieyang	𨑨迌物件ぶっけん, 羅ら坐すわ物件ぶっけん
	Haikou	弄ろう具ぐ
Wu	Shanghai	白しろ相しょう幹みき, 玩具おもちゃ
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	白しろ相しょう幹みき
	Ningbo	嬲なぶ和わ東西とうざい, 白しろ相しょう果はて
	Wenzhou	狡ずる調ちょう個こ物事ものごと
Xiang	Loudi	耍把戲おどけ

Derived terms

• 玩意兒じ／玩意儿 (wányìr)