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弄懂

Mandarin · pinyin nòng dǒng

to make sense of
to grasp the meaning of
to figure out

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弄: nòng · do, play or fiddle with; alley
懂: dǒng · understand, comprehend

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4–3 · nong4 dong3

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lung6 dung2

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