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Webster 1913 Edition

Wan

Wan

,
obs.
imp.
of
Win
.
Won.
Chaucer.

Wan

,
Adj.
[AS.
wann
,
wonn
,
wan
,
won
, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from
winnan
to labor, strive. See
Win
.]
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
“Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.”
Spenser.
My color . . . [is]
wan
and of a leaden hue.
Chaucer.
Why so pale and
wan
, fond lover?
Suckling.
With the
wan
moon overhead.
Longfellow.

Wan

,
Noun.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
[R.]
Tinged with
wan
from lack of sleep.
Tennyson.

Wan

,
Verb.
I.
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
“All his visage wanned.”
Shak.
And ever he mutter’d and madden'd, and ever
wann'd
with despair.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wan

WAN

,
Adj.
Pale; having a sickly hue; languid of look.
Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

WAN

, for won; pret. of win.

Definition 2024

wǎn

wǎn

See also: wan, WAN, wán, wàn, wān, wan-, -wan, and Appendix:Variations of "wan"

Mandarin

Romanization

wǎn (Zhuyin ㄨㄢˇ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 倇
  2. Pinyin transcription of 埦
  3. Pinyin transcription of 外
  4. Pinyin transcription of 娝
  5. Pinyin transcription of 婉
  6. Pinyin transcription of 宛
  7. Pinyin transcription of 惋
  8. Pinyin transcription of 挽
  9. Pinyin transcription of 晚
  10. Pinyin transcription of 晩
  11. Pinyin transcription of 晼
  12. Pinyin transcription of 梚
  13. Pinyin transcription of 椀
  14. Pinyin transcription of 浣
  15. Pinyin transcription of 涳
  16. Pinyin transcription of 澣
  17. Pinyin transcription of 琬
  18. Pinyin transcription of 皖
  19. Pinyin transcription of 盌
  20. Pinyin transcription of 睌
  21. Pinyin transcription of 睕
  22. Pinyin transcription of 碗
  23. Pinyin transcription of 宛
  24. Pinyin transcription of 綩
  25. Pinyin transcription of 綰, 绾
  26. Pinyin transcription of 脕
  27. Pinyin transcription of 外
  28. Pinyin transcription of 莞
  29. Pinyin transcription of 莬
  30. Pinyin transcription of 菀
  31. Pinyin transcription of 外
  32. Pinyin transcription of 蜿
  33. Pinyin transcription of 踠
  34. Pinyin transcription of 輓
  35. Pinyin transcription of 鋄
  36. Pinyin transcription of 鋔
  37. Pinyin transcription of 挽
  38. Pinyin transcription of 関
  39. Pinyin transcription of 鞔
  40. Pinyin transcription of 魭
  41. Pinyin transcription of 鯇, 鲩
  42. Pinyin transcription of 畹

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