Tom was teased by everyone.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
作弄
to tease
IN A VIDEO作弄
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to tease
02
to play tricks on
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 作弄 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 作弄 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom enjoys playing tricks on me.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 作弄.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 作弄.
Directly before
- 喜欢作弄1
- 大家作弄1
Directly after
- 作弄我1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 作弄
What does 作弄 mean in Chinese?
作弄 (zuònòng) means to tease.
How do you pronounce 作弄?
作弄 is pronounced zuònòng.
Is 作弄 an HSK word?
作弄 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.