I don't need something like that stuff.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
玩意
toy
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
toy
02
plaything
03
thing
04
act
05
trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 玩意 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 玩意 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I'm too old for that shit.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 玩意.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 玩意.
Directly before
- 狗屁玩意1
- 啥玩意1
- 这玩意1
- 那玩意1
Directly after
- 玩意杂技团1
- 玩意能1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 玩意
What does 玩意 mean in Chinese?
玩意 (wányì) means toy.
How do you pronounce 玩意?
玩意 is pronounced wányì.
Is 玩意 an HSK word?
玩意 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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