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弄

弄

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 弄
alt. forms 挵 “play”
衖 “alley”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
筭 *sloːns
弄 *roːŋs
梇 *roːŋs
哢 *roːŋs
硦 *rʷaːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 玉 ‎(“jade”) + 廾 ‎(“hands”) – play with a jade artefact using one's hands.

Etymology

Compared with Khmer លួង ‎(luŏng, “to console; to cheer; to coax; to flatter”) < Old Khmer lvaṅ ‎(“to cheer, amuse, entertain, divert”) < Pre-Angkorian Khmer loṅ. The Khmer initial consonant does not agree with Old Chinese; perhaps the Khmer word is a post-Han loan (Schuessler, 2007).

The sense of “lane; alleyway” is possibly from an ancient regional variant of 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs, “alley”).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 弄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧貢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /luŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /luŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /luŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /luŋH/
Wang
Li		 /luŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /luŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ luwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤoŋ-s/
English 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 弄
Reading # 1/1
No. 9586
Phonetic
component		 弄
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 弄
Old
Chinese		 /*roːŋs/

Definitions

弄

  1. to play with; to play around with; to fiddle with; to fondle
  2. to enjoy; to play
  3. trick; magic
  4. to make fun of; to tease; to bully
  5. to show off; to make a show of
  6. (Min Nan) to amuse (a child)
  7. (music) to play (a musical instrument); to perform
  8. (music) ditty
  9. to do; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with
  10. to make ... do/become ...; to cause ... to do ...
    他把小孩弄哭了。  ―  Tā bǎ xiǎohái nòng kū le.  ―  He made the kid cry.
  11. (colloquial) to cause someone to become pregnant
  12. (Min Nan) to shake off; to shake out
  13. to marry
  14. to investigate; to look into
  15. to get; to obtain; to fetch
    你這書哪兒弄的呀。 [MSC, trad.]
    你这书哪儿弄的呀。 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ zhè shū nǎr nòng de ya. [Pinyin]
    Where did you get the book?
  16. to decorate; to dress up; to put on make-up

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 弄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧貢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /luŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /luŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /luŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /luŋH/
Wang
Li		 /luŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /luŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ luwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤoŋ-s/
English 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 弄
Reading # 1/1
No. 9586
Phonetic
component		 弄
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 弄
Old
Chinese		 /*roːŋs/

Definitions

弄

  1. (historical) lane in palace
  2. (regional) alleyway; lane; apartment complex (especially in Shanghai)
    安遠路一八弄 / 安远路一八弄  ―  Ānyuǎn Lù Yībā Lòng  ―  18 Anyuan Road

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

弄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. tamper with

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)

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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