Don't make fun of old people.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
捉弄
to tease
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to tease
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 捉弄 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 捉弄 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Mary came home from school in tears because her friends had teased her.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 捉弄.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 捉弄.
Directly before
- 不要捉弄1
- 朋友捉弄1
Directly after
- 捉弄老人家1
- 捉弄了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 捉弄
What does 捉弄 mean in Chinese?
捉弄 (zhuōnòng) means to tease.
How do you pronounce 捉弄?
捉弄 is pronounced zhuōnòng.
Is 捉弄 an HSK word?
捉弄 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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