弄 nòng

1. nòng verb to play with; to fool with
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC nòng '弄' v 1; GHD '弄' 1; NCCED nòng '弄' 1)
2. lòng noun lane; alley
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
   Notes: (ABC lòng '弄' bf; NCCED lòng '弄')
3. nòng verb to do; to manage; to handle
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 做 or 搞 (ABC nòng '弄' v 2; GHD '弄' 5; NCCED nòng '弄' 2)
4. nòng verb to fetch; to get
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC nòng '弄' v 3; NCCED nòng '弄' 3)
5. nòng verb to play tricks
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 作弄 (ABC nòng '弄' v 4; GHD '弄' 2)
6. nòng verb to play a musical instrument
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHD '弄' 3)
7. nòng verb to perform
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 表演 (GHD '弄' 4)
8. nòng verb to play with; to fool with
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Z variant of 弄 (Unihan '弄')

Contained in

• 卖弄(賣弄) to show off; to make a display of
• 弄嘴弄舌 to cause a dispute through boastful gossip
• 弄错(弄錯) to err; to get wrong; to miscalculate; to misunderstand
• 调弄(調弄) to tease; to make fun of; to provoke; to stir up (trouble)
• 搬弄 to fiddle with; to play and move something about; to show off (what one can do); to parade (one's capabilities); to cause trouble
• 倒弄 to move (things around); to buy and sell at a profit
• 弄虚作假(弄虛作假) to practice fraud; by trickery
• 弄假成真 pretense that turns into reality; to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true
• 播弄 to order people about; to stir up; to sow discord
• 弄清 to clarify; to fully understand
• 欺弄 to insult
• 弄歪 to distort
• 唬弄 to fool; to deceive
• 故弄玄虚(故弄玄虛) deliberately mystifying; to make something unnecessarily complicated
• 炫弄 to show off; to flaunt
• 弄平 to flatten
• 弄璋 to play with a jade ornament
• 弄坏(弄壞) to ruin; to spoil; to break
• 弄伤(弄傷) to bruise; to hurt (something)
• 作弄 to tease; to play tricks on
• 捣弄(搗弄) to move back and forward; to trade
• 弄糟 to spoil; to mess up
• 巷弄 alley; lane
• 丢眉弄眼(丟眉弄眼) to throw a glance at; to tempt or provoke with a facial expression
• 弄懂弄通 to get a thorough understanding of sth
• 弄巧成拙 to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
• 搔首弄姿 to stroke one's hair coquettishly
• 弄混 to confuse (fail to differentiate)
• 舞弄 to wave; to brandish
• 捉弄 to tease
• 胡弄 to fool; to deceive; to go through the motions
• 舞文弄墨 to play with ink without civilization
• 弄清楚 make clear
• 弄死 to kill; to put to death
• 弄不清 unable to figure out
• 玩弄词藻(玩弄詞藻) to juggle with words (dishonestly); to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
• 弄臣 minister for entertainment
• 弄脏(弄髒) to make dirty; to defile; to smear
• 挑弄 to incite; to provoke; to tease
• 吟风弄月(吟風弄月) singing of the wind and the moon; vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
• 挤眉弄眼(擠眉弄眼) raise eyebrows and make eyes
• 弄乱(弄亂) to mess up; to put into disorder; to meddle with; to confuse
• 梳弄 to deflorate a prostitute
• 耍弄 to play with; to engage in; to resort to; to dally with
• 把弄 to play with; to finger
• 愚弄 to make a fool out of; to fool; to dupe
• 弄醒 to wake up
• 盘弄(盤弄) to play around with; to fidget; to fondle

Also contained in

弄物不知名 、 里弄 、 棄宗弄贊

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 24
• 卷一百九十六上 列傳第一百四十六上: 吐蕃上 Volume 196 Biographies 146: Tubo (Tibet) 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 14
• 第四十回 Chapter 40 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 13
• 卷二百二十二下 列傳第一百四十七下 南蠻下 Volume 222c Biographies 147c: Southern Man 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 12
• 卷二百一十六上 列傳第一百四十一上 吐蕃上 Volume 216a Biographies 141a: Tubo 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 88 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 56 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 36 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8

Collocations

• 弄儿 (弄兒) 爲帝弄兒 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十八 霍光金日磾傳 Volume 68: Huo Guang and Jin Midi — count: 11
• 操弄 (操弄) 自先帝時操弄國權 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十九 竇何列傳 Volume 69: Biographies of Dou, He — count: 7
• 弄法 (弄法) 吏士舞文弄法 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《太史公自序》 Biographies of Usurers — count: 6
• 窃弄 (竊弄) 竊弄君威 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong — count: 6
• 专弄 (專弄) 太尉王龚以中常侍张昉等专弄国权 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第十六 五行四 地震 山崩 地陷 大風拔樹 螟 牛疫 Volume 106: Five Elements Part Four — count: 4
• 弄马 (弄馬) 君以弄馬之故 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 4
• 弄威权 (弄威權) 操弄威權 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十二 蜀書十二　　杜周杜許孟來尹李譙郤傳 Volume 42: Book of Shu 12 - Biographies of Du, Zhou, Du, Xu, Meng, Lai, Yin, Li, Qiao, and Xi — count: 4
• 子弄 (子弄) 子弄父兵 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 4
• 弄父 (弄父) 子弄父兵 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 4
• 载弄 (載弄) 載弄之璋 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧斯干 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - Si Gan — count: 3