The kanji 弄: meaning, readings and stroke order

弄

Meaning: toy with, play with
On reading: ロウ rou
Kun reading: もてあそ（ぶ） moteasobu
Strokes: 7
Radical: 廾 two hands, twenty
Level: Level 10 · the last years of senior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: đùa nghịch, giỡn (lộng)
Japanese: もてあそぶ。いじってあそぶ。
Korean: 가지고 놀다, 놀리다 (농·롱)
Chinese: 玩弄、摆弄

Readings, words and example sentences

ロウ rou · on reading · less common

翻ほん弄ろう
being tossed about, at the mercy of
波に 翻ほん弄ろうされます。
The boat is tossed about by the waves.

もてあそ（ぶ） moteasobu · kun reading · less common

弄もてあそぶ
to toy with, to play with
人の気持ちを 弄もてあそんでは いけません。
You must not toy with people's feelings.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.