弄

Meaning

弄 centers on handling something casually or without serious purpose: playing with an object, tampering with it, or trifling with it in a light or meddlesome way.

• 弄るいじる
  N1

  to finger; to touch; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with

• 弄りいじり

  meddling; fumbling; fondling; playing around with something

• 翻弄ほんろう

  having at one's mercy; trifling with; toying with; playing with; making a fool of; leading around by the nose; tossing about (a ship); buffeting

• 弄ぶもてあそぶ

  to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with

• 弄くるいじくる

  to finger; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with

• 愚弄ぐろう

  mockery; derision; ridicule

• 弄るまさぐる

  to grope; to feel around (in one's pocket, bag, etc.)

• 嘲弄ちょうろう

  scorn; mockery; ridicule

• 土弄りつちいじり

  playing with dirt

• 弄ういらう

  to touch; to finger; to play with; to fiddle with

• 弄するろうする

  to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.)

• 弄び物もてあそびもの

  plaything; toy

• 弄火ろうか

  playing with fire

• 弄花ろうか

  gambling with hanafuda

• 戯弄ぎろう

  teasing; toying with someone's emotions

• 手弄りてまさぐり

  playing with something with one's fingers

• 玩弄がんろう

  toying with; playing with

• 玩弄品がんろうひん

  toy

• 玩弄物がんろうぶつ

  plaything; toy

• 術策を弄するじゅっさくをろうする

  to intrigue; to play a trick on; to resort to tricks

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