弯弯

彎彎

Wānwān

proper noun #37,351

Meanings

1 Wan Wan (Taiwanese illustrator and blogger)
2 curvy / winding

About Wan Wan

born 1981 · 画家 painter

Taiwanese illustrator whose stick-figure blog comics about office life and everyday troubles, later collected in books, were hugely popular across the Chinese-speaking world in the 2000s.

Also called 胡家玮

Characters

弯

wān

curve / bend

Examples

HSK 6

我从大学起就在追弯弯的漫画。

Wǒ cóng dàxué qǐ jiù zài zhuī Wānwān de mànhuà.

I have been following Wan Wan's comics since university.

HSK 6

弯弯的小路通向村庄。

Wānwān de xiǎolù tōngxiàng cūnzhuāng.

The winding little road leads to the village.

Tips

culture

Her pen name is an everyday word: 弯弯 means 'curved, winding', as in 弯弯的月亮, 'the crescent moon', the title of a much-loved 1990 Chinese pop song.

In Pop Culture

弯弯 Wānwān

Wan Wan

Pen-name of Taiwanese illustrator Hu Chia-wei (胡家玮 Hú Jiāwěi, b. 1981), whose stick-figure web comics about everyday life became a phenomenon across Greater China in the 2000s. Books like 《可不可以不要上班》sold millions.

Stroke Order

弯 wān

弯弯