玩世

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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

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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    完事
    玩世
- (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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    玩世
    萬世／万世
    萬事／万事
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

(literary) to despise worldly affairs; to be unruly

Derived terms

玩世不恭 (wánshìbùgōng)
玩世不羈／玩世不羁

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