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弄

nòng

HSK 4 Character

What 弄 means

1. to do
2. to manage
3. to handle
4. to play with
5. to fool with
6. to mess with
7. to fix
8. to toy with

Other readings

弄 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lònglane; alley
• nòngold variant of {弄|nòng}
• lòngvariant of {弄|lòng}

Example sentences

• 洗后弄平。
  After washing, de-wrinkle it.
• 弄什么呀？
  What are you doing?
• 让我来弄。
  Leave it to me.
• 她愚弄了他。
  Tā yúnòng le tā.
  She fooled him.
• 你别嘲弄他们。
  Nǐ bié cháonòng tāmen.
  You ought not to make fun of them.
• 汤尼弄坏了它。
  Tony broke it.

Words starting with 弄

• 弄到nòng dàoto get hold of; to obtain; to secure
• 弄清nòng qīngto clarify; to fully understand
• 弄堂lòng táng(dialect) alley; lane
• 弄错nòng cuòto err; to get sth wrong; to miscalculate
• 弄脏nòng zāngto make dirty; to defile; to smear
• 弄丢nòng diūto lose
• 弄懂nòng dǒngto make sense of; to grasp the meaning of; to figure out
• 弄坏nòng huàito ruin; to spoil; to break
• 弄虚作假nòng xū zuò jiǎto practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
• 弄死nòng sǐto kill; to put to death
• 弄到手nòng dào shǒuto get in hand; to get (one's) hands on; to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)
• 弄巧成拙nòng qiǎo chéng zhuōto overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
• 弄乱nòng luànto mess up; to put into disorder; to meddle with
• 弄伤nòng shāngto bruise; to hurt (something)
• 弄平nòng píngto flatten
• 弄混nòng húnto confuse (fail to differentiate)
• 弄瓦nòng wǎ(literary) to have a baby girl; to celebrate the birth of a daughter
• 弄直nòng zhíto straighten
• 弄短nòng duǎnto shorten; shortening
• 弄走nòng zǒu(colloquial) to take (sth) away; to get rid of
• 弄通nòng tōngto get a good grasp of
• 弄醒nòng xǐngto wake sb up
• 弄不清nòng bu qīngunable to figure out
• 弄明白nòng míng baito figure out how to do something

Words containing 弄

• 玩弄wán nòngto play with; to toy with; to dally with
• 摆弄bǎi nòngto move back and forth; to fiddle with
• 嘲弄cháo nòngto tease; to poke fun at; to make fun of
• 捉弄zhuō nòngto tease
• 卖弄mài nongto show off; to make a display of
• 糊弄hù nongto fool; to deceive; to go through the motions
• 愚弄yú nòngto make a fool out of; to fool; to dupe
• 戏弄xì nòngto play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease
• 拨弄bō nòngto move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up
• 里弄lǐ lònglanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified…
• 挤眉弄眼jǐ méi nòng yǎnto make eyes; to wink
• 作弄zuò nòngto tease; to play tricks on
• 抚弄fǔ nòngto fondle; to caress; to stroke
• 故弄玄虚gù nòng xuán xūdeliberately mystifying; to make sth unnecessarily complicated
• 倒弄dǎo nongto move (things around); to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
• 呼弄hū nòngto fool; to deceive
• 把弄bǎ nòngto play with; to fiddle with
• 挑弄tiǎo nòngto incite; to provoke; to tease
• 播弄bō nongto order people about; to stir up; to sow discord
• 操弄cāo nòngto manipulate; manipulation
• 盘弄pán nòngto play around with; to fidget; to fondle
• 舞弄wǔ nòngto wave; to brandish
• 调弄tiáo nòngto tease; to make fun of; to provoke
• 显弄xiǎn nòngto flaunt; to show off

Characters built on 王

These share the phonetic component 王 (wáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants
• 琮cóngjade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times
• 珙gǒng(gem)
• 璁cōngstone similar to jade

Characters that look like 弄

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 并bìngand; furthermore; also
• 再zàiagain; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more
• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 奔bēnto hurry; to rush; to run quickly
• 劵juànold variant of 倦

Sounds the same

Read nòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 挊old variant of 弄