| | to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke | HSK 1 |
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| | joke; jest / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd | HSK 2 |
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| | to drive a car (or train etc) / (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke | HSK 1 |
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| | noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally sensitive topics as jokes (implying that laughing would send one to hell) | |
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| | to take seriously / serious / No joking, really! | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka / (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive | HSK 7-9 |
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| | branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) | |
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| | a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋 (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way) | |
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| | amusing speech or act / jokes / antics / funny / amusing / Taiwan pr. [xue1 tou2] | |
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| | joy / to joke / to banter / to tease / to mock / Taiwan pr. [nu:e4] | |
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| | amused by even the weakest joke / ready to laugh at the smallest thing | |
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| | to no avail / achieving nothing / totally ineffective / to have no effect / to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored) | |
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| | (Tw) unoriginal; hackneyed; (of a joke) old | |
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| | to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule | |
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| | lame joke | |
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| | to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly | |
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| | sb who crafts and delivers witty, humorous or satirical short stories, jokes or punchlines; a wit; a humorist | |
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| | corny joke | |
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| | joking / humorous talk | |
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| | practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke | |
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| | (coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly | |
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| | funny bits / humorous parts / jokes / punchline | |
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| | to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter | |
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| | to play games / to joke around / to play a joke on sb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) | |
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| | joking matter / to go back on one's words | |
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| | dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest | |
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| | to joke | |
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| | to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together | |
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| | to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around | |
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| | playful talk / joking | |
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| | comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes | |
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| | dirty jokes / jokes of a visceral nature | |
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| | to joke / joke / jest | |
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| | (dialect) to joke | |
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| | Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes) | |
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| | (of a comedian) to seize on something sb has just said or done to make an ad lib joke | |
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| | garrulous / to whisper / to joke | |
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| | funny man (lead role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声) / to joke / to play the fool / to provoke laughter | |
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| | to joke / to crack a joke | |
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| | (dialect) to joke / to make fun of (sb) | |
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| | piggy (joking name) | |
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| | to hide oneself (as a joke) | |
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| | drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom | |
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| | to tease (playfully); to entice / (coll.) to joke / (coll.) funny; amusing / to stay; to sojourn / brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lewd comment; vulgar joke | |
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| | (dialect) to joke | |
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