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


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