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- to look after
- to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc)
- to repair
- 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
- to fiddle with
- to play and move sth about
- to show off (what one can do)
- to parade (one's capabilities)
- to cause trouble
Trad. 撥弄
- to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc)
- to fiddle with
- to stir up
- to get in hand
- to get (one's) hands on
- to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)
- (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])
Trad. 吟風弄月
- lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
Trad. 裝神弄鬼
- lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus
Trad. 含飴弄孫
- lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom)
- fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age
- to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people
- to tell tales
- to make mischief
- pretense that turns into reality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true
- to cause a dispute through boastful gossip (idiom)
Trad. 弄崗穗鶥
- (bird species of China) Nonggang babbler (Stachyris nonggangensis)
- to overreach oneself
- to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
- to get a thorough understanding of sth (idiom)
Trad. 班門弄斧
- to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
Trad. 故弄玄虛
- deliberately mystifying
- to make sth unnecessarily complicated
Trad. 弄虛作假
- to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
Trad. 玩弄詞藻
- to juggle with words (dishonestly)
- to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric