玩游戏

玩遊戲

wányóuxì

verb

Meanings

1 to play games
2 to play video games

Characters

Examples

我哥下班回家就玩游戏。

Wǒ gē xiàbān huí jiā jiù wán yóuxì.

My older brother plays games as soon as he gets home from work.

别玩游戏了,该睡觉了。

Bié wán yóuxì le, gāi shuìjiào le.

Stop playing games — it's time for bed.

Tips

usage

玩游戏 covers any game, but in modern context it almost always means video games. For specifically video games, you'll also see 打游戏 (dǎ yóuxì), more common in male / gamer speech: 打 implies competitive intensity, 玩 is casual.

Stroke Order

玩 wán

游 yóu

戏 xì