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Today, we are going to learn a Cantonese word 玩, which has three pronunciations so that you’re probably pronouncing it wrong.
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This character 玩 has three pronunciations.（waan2)（wun6）(waan4)
You must have learnt the first pronunciations from the popular and classic song sung by 阿Sam，许冠杰. His songs reminds me of my entire childhood and my dad.
#1 [waan2]
It is often used to mean play，玩电话[waan2 din6 waa2]（play phone）玩游戏[waan2 jau4 hei3]（play games）and also in this song, it mentions 贪玩[taam1 waan2] (playful) and 好玩[hou2 waan2](interesting/fun).
For example, your girlfriend reminds you not to play phone all the time,
Then she would say:
[mai5 jat6 jat6 waan2 din6 waa2 laa3, teng1 haa6 ngo5 gong2 je5 hou2 m4 hou2]
咪日日玩电话喇，听下我讲嘢好唔好？
Don’t always play your phone. Could you listen to me a little bit?
Then you could tell her,
ni1 zek3 hou2 hou2 waan2 aa3, jat1 cai4 waan2 laa3!
呢只game好好玩呀，一齐玩喇！
This game is fun. Let’s play together.
If I were your girlfriend, maybe I will be mad and say,
ngo5 dei6 waan2 jyun4 laa3! m4 hou2 zoi3 lai4 wan2 ngo5 aa3!
我哋玩完喇！唔好再嚟搵我呀！
We are done! Please don’t come to me any more.
玩完[waan2 jyun4] means something is done and finished，or, game over.
What’s more, it also means “tease or trifle with” like 玩女人 [waan2 neoi5 jan4]（womanize） and 玩嘢[waan2 je5]（play a trick）We must watch this on the Cantoense movies before.
nei5 tung4 ngo5 sing2 sing2 ding6 ding6 aa3! mai5 waan2 je5 aa3!
你同我醒醒定定呀！咪玩嘢！
Be careful for me. Don’t play a trick!
#2 [wun6]
It has the meaning of toy since the character is originated from 玉 jade. Lots of Chinese antique is kind of ancient toy made by jade. So we call them 古玩[waan2] It is the second tone because of the sound change.
The other common word is 玩具。This song is also my favorite-玩玩具.
#3 [waan4]
The last one is not so common. But if you watch some Cantonese ancient TV shows, sometimes you could hear this one 玩笑 [waan4 siu3]
It means jokes.
nei5 dim2 ho2 ji5 lo2 ni1 di1 je5 lai4 hoi1 waan2 siu3 gaa3?
你点可以攞呢啲嘢嚟开玩笑架？
How could you play a joke with these?
开玩笑 means play a joke. But we usually use 讲笑 which literally means “tell a joke”
mai5 nau1 laa3, ngo5 gong2 siu3 zaa3!
咪嬲喇，我讲笑咋！
Don’t be mad. I am just kidding!
Hope you enjoy today’s video and there is no more confusion on “play” in Cantonese. See you guys soon!
