What is the profinite completion of a free abelian group of infinite rank?

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By definition, profinite completion of a group $G$ is $\widehat{G}=\varprojlim_N G/N$ where $N$ runs through every subgroup of finite index in $G$. Let $M=\bigoplus_{n\ge1} \Bbb{Z}$ be a free abelian group of countably infinite rank.

$1$. What is $\widehat{M}$?

My guess is $\widehat{M}=\prod_{n\ge1}\Bbb{\widehat{Z}}$. Am I right? How can I prove?

$2$. More generally, what is $\widehat{\oplus_{n\ge1}{ C_n}}$ where $C_n$ is cyclic group? Is it ${\prod_{n\ge1}{\widehat{ C_n}}}$?

Similarly what is pro-$p$-completions?

My questioins are originated from the profinite completion of $\Bbb{Q}^{\times}$, the multiplicative group of the rational number field.

It is known that $\Bbb{Q}^{\times}\cong {\{\pm1\}}\times \bigoplus_{n\ge1} \Bbb{Z} $