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to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
HSK 1
joke; jest / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd
HSK 2
to drive a car (or train etc) / (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闹* | 闹* | *闹
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
(coll.) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally sensitive topics as jokes (implying that laughing would send one to hell)
to take seriously / serious / No joking, really!
HSK 7-9
hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka / (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *梗* | 梗* | *梗
branch / stem / stalk / CL: / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from , 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)
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)
amusing speech or act / jokes / antics / funny / amusing / Taiwan pr. [xue1 tou2]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谑* | 谑* | *谑
joy / to joke / to banter / to tease / to mock / Taiwan pr. [nu:e4]
amused by even the weakest joke / ready to laugh at the smallest thing
to no avail / achieving nothing / totally ineffective / to have no effect / to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)
(Tw) unoriginal; hackneyed; (of a joke) old
to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
lame joke
to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly
sb who crafts and delivers witty, humorous or satirical short stories, jokes or punchlines; a wit; a humorist
corny joke
joking / humorous talk
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
(coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
funny bits / humorous parts / jokes / punchline
to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter
to play games / to joke around / to play a joke on sb
HSK 7-9
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)
joking matter / to go back on one's words
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
to joke
to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around
playful talk / joking
comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes
dirty jokes / jokes of a visceral nature
to joke / joke / jest
(dialect) to joke
Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)
(of a comedian) to seize on something sb has just said or done to make an ad lib joke
garrulous / to whisper / to joke
funny man (lead role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声) / to joke / to play the fool / to provoke laughter
to joke / to crack a joke
(dialect) to joke / to make fun of (sb)
piggy (joking name)
to hide oneself (as a joke)
drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *逗* | 逗* | *逗
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
lewd comment; vulgar joke
(dialect) to joke


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