玩弄

玩弄

Chinese

		curios; antiques; to play curios; antiques; to play; to amuse oneself	to do; to manage; to handle to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with; lane; alley
simp. and trad. (玩弄)		玩	弄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wánnòng, wànnòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ ㄋㄨㄥˋ, ㄨㄢˋ ㄋㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶ lung⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): oán-lōng / goán-lōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: wánnòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ ㄋㄨㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannonq
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯än³⁵ nʊŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: wánrnòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊㄦ ㄋㄨㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: walnonq
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑɻ³⁵ nʊŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, literary variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: wànnòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄋㄨㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannnonq
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯än⁵¹⁻⁵³ nʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁶ lung⁶
    • Yale: wuhn luhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶ lung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶ lung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wuːn²² lʊŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán-lōng
    • Tâi-lô: uán-lōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafnlong
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: goán-lōng
    • Tâi-lô: guán-lōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: goafnlong
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /guan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /guan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ³³/

Verb

玩弄

1. to play with; to juggle with
2. to play jokes on; to fool
3. to dally with; to flirt with
4. to resort to; to employ
5. (Classical Chinese) to ponder; to ruminate; to savor

Synonyms

• (ponder): 玩味 (wánwèi)