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玩弄

wán nòng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

玩弄 (wán nòng) means "to play with; to toy with; to dally with". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 玩弄 means

1. to play with
2. to toy with
3. to dally with
4. to engage in
5. to resort to

The characters in 玩弄

• 玩wánto play; to have fun; to trifle with
• 弄nòngto do; to manage; to handle

Example sentences

• 你不该玩弄他的感情。
  You should not trifle with his feelings.

Words starting with 玩弄

• 玩弄词藻wán nòng cí zǎoto juggle with words (dishonestly); to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric

Where 玩弄 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wán (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wán nòng correctly.
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