弄 — Chinese character
弄
nòng
to do; to mock, to tease; to play with
- Pinyin
- nòng
- Radical
- 55 ⼶ (Two Hands)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 玉 廾
- Formation
- ideographic — Two hands 廾 playing with a piece of jade 玉; 廾 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 弄 as a kanji
Common words with 弄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 玩弄 | wán nòng | to play with; to toy with |
| 愚弄 | yú nòng | to make a fool out of; to fool |
| 弄清 | nòng qīng | to clarify; to fully understand |
| 嘲弄 | cháo nòng | to tease; to poke fun at |
| 戏弄 (戲弄) | xì nòng | to play tricks on; to make fun of |
| 卖弄 (賣弄) | mài nong | to show off; to make a display of |
| 捉弄 | zhuō nòng | to tease |
| 弄错 (弄錯) | nòng cuò | to err; to get sth wrong |
| 糊弄 | hù nong | to fool; to deceive |
| 弄死 | nòng sǐ | to kill; to put to death |
| 弄虚作假 (弄虛作假) | nòng xū zuò jiǎ | to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery |
| 摆弄 (擺弄) | bǎi nòng | to move back and forth; to fiddle with |
English words written with 弄
弄 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.