弄
nònglòng HSK2

fiddle with

弄 nòng frequency
variant 挵
to make verb
to make (someone or something into a certain state); to cause

你弄得他很紧张。

nǐ nòng de tā hěn jǐn​zhāng.

You're making him nervous.

我们一定要把她弄出德国。

wǒ​men yī​dìng yào bǎ tā nòng chū dé​guó.

We must get her out of Germany.

to deceive verb
to trick; to play with someone's feelings; (colloquial) to have illicit sexual relations with
to make clear verbparticle
to investigate; to find out; to make clear
to do verb
to do; to manage; to handle; to fix; to deal with

上帝不会弄错的。

shàng​dì bù​huì nòng cuò de.

God doesn't make mistakes.

头发想怎么弄？

tóu​fa xiǎng zěn​me nòng?

How would you like your hair done?

to get verb
to get; to obtain; to fetch

你从哪弄的食物？

nǐ cóng nǎ nòng de shí​wù?

Where did you get the food?

to play with verbadjective
to play with; to toy with; to mess with; to show off or flaunt
弄 lòng
variant 衖
lane noun
(bound form) lane; alley; narrow street
弄 nòng
musical piece
(literary) a short musical composition; a tune; to play a musical instrument

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Synonym

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Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,053rd most common 145.8 per million
Movie subtitles
450th most common 325.5 per million appears in 78% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
404.6 per million appears in 74% of films
Written text
81.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5F04

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)