Chinese word dictionary

嘲弄

cháonòng · to tease; to poke fun at; to make fun of

Practice word

Word information

Simplified嘲弄

Traditional嘲弄

Pinyincháonòng

Part of speech动

HSK 3.07-9

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

嘲cháo

to deride, to jeer at, to ridicule, to scorn

弄nòng

to do; to mock, to tease; to play with

How to learn 嘲弄

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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弄nòng

old variant of 弄[nong4]; to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with

嘲笑cháoxiào

to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision

弄虚作假nòngxū-zuòjiǎ

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

玩弄wánnòng

to play with; to toy with; to dally with; to engage in; to resort to