弄 hanja, meaning do, read 롱 (rong)
Reading
농 (nong) when it starts a word (see below).
Also read 농 (nong)
do, play or fiddle with; alley
희롱할 롱huironghal rong
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 희롱할 (huironghal) is the Korean for do, and 롱 (rong) is the reading. Say 희롱할 롱 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- ⼶ 55
- Beyond radical
- 4
- Mandarin
- nòng
- Japanese on
- rou
- Japanese kun
- moteasobu
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 롱, but South Korean spelling writes 농 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
농
弄談 농담 nongdam弄半 농반 nongban弄月 농월 nongwol
Elsewhere in the word
롱
才弄 재롱 jaerong愚弄 우롱 urong
Vocabulary
Words that use 弄
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Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.