弄

lane / alley

弄 = 王 + 廾 : Martin Luther King (王) cannot take of his handcuffs (廾). Lenny Lemur (lu) is leading him secretly through a small lane (弄) into engine's bathroom ((e)ng4).

弄

nòng = nu + (e)ng4

to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with

弄 = 王 + 廾 : Nelson Newt (nu) has been fiddling (弄) with Martin Luther King's (王) handcuffs (廾) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) for hours until he was finally able to open them.

弄

挵

nòng = nu + (e)ng4

old variant of 弄[nong4]

弄 = 王 + 廾 : Nelson Newt (nu) has been fiddling (弄) with Martin Luther King's (王) handcuffs (廾) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) for hours until he was finally able to open them.

弄

衖

lòng = lu + (e)ng4

variant of 弄[long4]

弄 = 王 + 廾 : Martin Luther King (王) cannot take of his handcuffs (廾). Lenny Lemur (lu) is leading him secretly through a small lane (弄) into engine's bathroom ((e)ng4).

弄 character breakdown

弄
- 廾
  - 一
  - 丨
  - 丿
- 王
  - 一
  - 土
    - 一
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨

廾

gǒng = gu + (e)ng3

hands joined

廾 = 丿 + 丨 + 一 : Handcuffs. Gitta Giraffe is sitting inside of the engine, her hands tied up with handcuffs. There's a flute as horizontal bar, and attached to either side are a banana and a dinosaur bone, so that she cannot slide off the chain.

王

wáng = w + ang2

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

王 = 一 + 土 : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).

王

wàng = w + ang4

to rule / to reign over

Characters with 弄 as component

弄

挵

nòng = nu + (e)ng4

old variant of 弄[nong4]

弄 = 王 + 廾 : Nelson Newt (nu) has been fiddling (弄) with Martin Luther King's (王) handcuffs (廾) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) for hours until he was finally able to open them.

哢

lòng = lu + (e)ng4

to sing or chirp (of birds) / music sound

筭

suàn = su + an4

to regard as / to figure

Words with 弄

愚

yú

弄

nòng

to make a fool out of / to fool / to dupe

卖

賣

mài

弄

nong

to show off / to make a display of

里

lǐ

弄

lòng

lanes and alleys / neighborhood / lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families

耍

shuǎ

弄

nòng

to play with / to engage in / to resort to / to dally with

装

裝

zhua̅ng

神

shén

弄

nòng

鬼

guǐ

lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom) / fig. to engage in hocus-pocus

舞

wǔ

文

wén

弄

nòng

墨

mò

(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])

逗

dòu

弄

nòng

to tease / to provoke / to play with (a child, animal etc)

舞

wǔ

弄

nòng

to wave / to brandish

调

調