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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		弄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nòng (nong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lung⁶, nung⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): lāng / lōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nung⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nonq
    • IPA ^(key): /nʊŋ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lung⁶, nung⁶
    • Yale: luhng, nuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lung⁶, nung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ²²/, /nʊŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāng / lōng
    • Tâi-lô: lāng / lōng
    • IPA (Taipei): /laŋ³³/, /lɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /laŋ²²/, /lɔŋ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (弄, reconstructed)
Character (弄), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 盧貢切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/luŋH/	/luŋH/	/luŋH/	/luŋH/	/ləwŋH/	/luŋH/	/luŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (弄, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
弄								nòng								‹ luwngH ›								/*[r]ˤoŋ-s/								manipulate, play with
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
弄					9586					弄					東					0					弄					/*roːŋs/

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Japanese

Kanji

弄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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