Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    toying with; playing with

  2. making a plaything of (someone); treating as a plaything; trifling with

Also written 翫弄【がんろう】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

play, take pleasure in, trifle with, make sport of

Kun
もちあそ.ぶもてあそ.ぶ
On
ガン
Strokes
8
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2216 of 2500
Radical
jade

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-4-4SKIP code
4f4.1The Kanji Dictionary
1111.1Four corner code
73a9Unicode hex code
1-20-65JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2925Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3622New Nelson (John Haig)
1085Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
778Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2567Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
276Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
20872Morohashi
2003Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
wan2, wan4Pinyin reading
wanKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

play with, tamper, trifle with

Kun
いじく.るろう.するいじ.るひねく.るたわむ.れるもてあそ.ぶ
On
ロウ
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
Radical
two hands

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-4-3SKIP code
4f3.2The Kanji Dictionary
1044.1Four corner code
5f04Unicode hex code
1-47-14JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2924Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1668New Nelson (John Haig)
3057Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2129Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2558Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
731Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9596Morohashi
2004Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
nong4, long4Pinyin reading
rongKorean reading