弄 (nòng)
To do; to manage; to handle; to mess with
How 弄 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 王 — jade
- Traditional
- 弄
- Simplified
- 弄 (unchanged)
Components
- 王 jade
- 艹 grass
弄 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- lòng
- lane; alley
- nòng
- to do; to manage; to handle; to play with
Common words using 弄
- 弄丟 nòngdiū
- to lose
- 弄到 nòngdào
- to get hold of; to obtain; to secure
- 弄壞 nònghuài
- to ruin; to spoil; to break
- 弄死 nòngsǐ
- to kill; to put to death
- 弄醒 nòngxǐng
- to wake sb up
- 弄髒 nòngzāng
- to make dirty; to defile; to smear
- 捉弄 zhuōnòng
- to tease
- 搬弄 bānnòng
- to fiddle with; to play and move sth about; to show off (what one can do)
- 撥弄 bōnòng
- to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up
- 擺弄 bǎinòng
- to move back and forth; to fiddle with
- 玩弄 wánnòng
- to play with; to toy with; to dally with
- 糊弄 hùnong
- to fool; to deceive
弄 in a sentence
我不小心把手機弄壞了。
Wǒ bù xiǎoxīn bǎ shǒujī nòng huài le.
“I accidentally broke my phone.”
How common is 弄?
弄 is the 1,051st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90% of all running text.
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