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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弄* | 弄* | *弄
to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弄* | 弄* | *弄
old variant of
HSK 2
to tease / to poke fun at / to make fun of
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
to show off / to make a display of
HSK 7-9
to play with / to toy with / to dally with / to engage in / to resort to
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弄* | 弄* | *弄
lane / alley
(dialect) alley / lane
to ruin / to spoil / to break
to err / to get sth wrong / to miscalculate / to misunderstand
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弄* | 弄* | *弄
variant of
to clarify / to fully understand
to make a fool out of / to fool / to dupe
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
to tease / to provoke / to play with (a child, animal etc)
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc) / to fiddle with / to stir up
to kill / to put to death
to move back and forth / to fiddle with
to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology ( was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨)
to tease
to make eyes / to wink
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
to fondle; to caress; to stroke
(idiom) to strike a coquettish pose
to get a good grasp of
lanes and alleys / neighborhood / lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
to tease / to play tricks on
emperor's favorite courtier
lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus
to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom) / fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age
to play with / to engage in / to resort to / to dally with
pretense that turns into reality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true
to look after / to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc) / to repair
to fool / to deceive
to fiddle with / to play and move sth about / to show off (what one can do) / to parade (one's capabilities) / to cause trouble
to move back and forward / to trade
to order people about / to stir up / to sow discord
to tease / to make fun of / to provoke / to stir up (trouble)
to bring to deadlock / to result in a stalemate
lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
to play around with / to fidget / to fondle
to incite / to provoke / to tease
to wave / to brandish
(literary) to have a baby boy; to celebrate the birth of a son
(literary) to have a baby girl; to celebrate the birth of a daughter
to crumple
to fool around with / to mess with
to flaunt / to show off
to figure out how to do something
(old) to deflorate a prostitute
(dialect) to mix / to stir / to make trouble
to manipulate / manipulation
to make sense of / to grasp the meaning of / to figure out
unable to figure out
to wake sb up
to spoil / to mess up
to crumble
to bruise / to hurt (something)
to confuse (fail to differentiate)
to show off; to flaunt
(coll.) to take (sth) away / to get rid of
to straighten
to lose
to cause a dispute through boastful gossip (idiom)
to flatten
to make dirty / to defile / to smear
to play with; to fiddle with
to wink at sb
to mock / to bully and insult
to fool / to deceive
alley / lane
unable to make sense of (sth)
to mess up / to put into disorder / to meddle with / to confuse
to get hold of / to obtain / to secure / to come by
to get in hand / to get (one's) hands on / to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)
(bird species of China) Nonggang babbler (Stachyris nonggangensis)
to get a thorough understanding of sth (idiom)
to distort
to shorten / shortening
to juggle with words (dishonestly) / to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions


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