Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "弄" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "弄" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
nòng、 lòng
Definition
lane / alley, to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with
lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
to tease / to poke fun at / to make fun of
to show off / to make a display of
to clarify / to fully understand
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
to play with / to toy with / to dally with / to engage in / to resort to
to move back and forth / to fiddle with
to make a fool out of / to fool / to dupe
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
to err / to get sth wrong / to miscalculate / to misunderstand
to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc) / to fiddle with / to stir up
manipulate power for personal ends
装神弄鬼 zhuāng shén nòng guǐ
lit. dress up as God, play the devil (idiom); fig. to mystify / to deceive people / to scam
to tease / to play tricks on
to make sense of / to grasp the meaning of / to figure out
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
弄巧成拙 nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō
to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
see 弄巧成拙[nong4 qiao3 cheng2 zhuo1]
to stroke one's hair coquettishly (idiom)
to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
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 display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
to bring to deadlock / to result in a stalemate
