弄

Translingual

Han character

弄 (radical 55 廾+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一土廿 (MGT), four-corner 1044₁, composition ⿱王廾)

1. ditty
2. do, play or fiddle with, play with
3. to play a musical instrument or do for amusement
4. (same as 衖) alley, alleyway
5. to try to obtain, fish or wangle for
6. to cause to

References

• KangXi: page 353, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9596
• Dae Jaweon: page 669, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 515, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5F04

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Cantonese

Hanzi

弄 (jyutping lung6, nung6, Yale lung6, nung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

弄 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ろう (rō)
• Kun: もてあそぶ (moteasobu), たわむれる (tawamureru), いじる (ijiru), いじくる (ijikuru), いらう (irau), いろう (irou), まさぐる (masaguru)

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Korean

Hanja

弄 (hangeul 롱>농, revised rong>nong, McCune-Reischauer rong>nong, Yale long>nong)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

弄 (pinyin nòng (nong4), Wade-Giles nung⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弄 (lộng, lóng, lồng, luồng, lòng, lụng, trổng)