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  *笑* | 笑* | *笑
to laugh; to smile / to laugh at
HSK 1
joke; jest (CL:個|个) / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd
HSK 2
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  *乐* | 乐* | *乐
happy / cheerful / to laugh
HSK 3
to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch / to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh)
HSK 3
(onom.) laughing out loud
HSK 3
to get people to laugh / funny / hilarious
HSK 7-9
to sneer / to laugh grimly / grin of dissatisfaction (bitterness, helplessness, indignation etc) / bitter, grim, sarcastic or angry smile
HSK 7-9
brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy / all smiles
HSK 7-9
to be laughing and playing / to giggle
HSK 7-9
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / both funny and extremely embarrassing / between laughter and tears
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
to mock oneself / to laugh at oneself
to burst out laughing / hilarious / burst of laughter
object of ridicule / laughingstock / to laugh over sth / to make light chat
to laugh happily / a belly-laugh
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
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  *嘻* | 嘻* | *嘻
laugh / giggle / (interjection expressing admiration, surprise etc)
to laugh heartily / a belly laugh
talking and laughing / cheerful talk
talking and laughing / to jest / cheerful and lively
to howl with laughter; to laugh one's head off
to laugh nastily / evil grin
cannot help laughing / unable to restrain a smile
to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter
to burst out laughing / to laugh
to giggle / to laugh foolishly / to smirk / to simper
to laugh up one's sleeve
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / between laughter and tears
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  *悝* | 悝* | *悝
to laugh at
fun / pleasure / laughing matter
to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter
to amuse / to make sb laugh / to tease
laughing gas (nitrous oxide)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嚯* | 嚯* | *嚯
(onom.) expressing admiration or surprise / (onom.) sound of a laugh
to laugh away (instead of taking seriously)
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  *咥* | 咥* | *咥
loud laugh
Budai (the Laughing Buddha) / Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
laugh in (up) one's sleeve / snigger / snicker
to split one's sides laughing; to roar with laughter; (lit.) to hold one's belly with both hands
(idiom) to split one's sides laughing
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  *嗤* | 嗤* | *嗤
laugh at / jeer / scoff at / sneer at
to make a fool of oneself / to make oneself a laughing stock
to laugh evilly
lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom) / fig. all kinds of emotions / to mock and scold / (of writing) freely roving / following the author's fancy
to laugh involuntarily / Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]
(coll.) to burst out laughing
to dismiss with a laugh / to make light of
laugh lines (on the face)
to talk and laugh as though nothing had happened / to remain cheerful (despite a crisis)
(idiom) to dismiss sth with a laugh; to laugh it off
to split one's sides laughing
to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly
(literary) to sneer / to laugh at
to smile / to laugh
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
(coll.) person who makes people laugh; funny guy
nasolabial fold / smile lines / laugh lines
to laugh heartily / to burst into loud laughter
nitrous oxide N2O / laughing gas
to laugh heartily
lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black
nasolabial fold / smile lines / laugh lines
(of an actor) to break character by laughing; to corpse
amused by even the weakest joke / ready to laugh at the smallest thing
He laughs best who laughs last.
He laughs best who laughs last.
to split one's sides laughing
(Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明|黄晓明, who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話|闹笑话)
to laugh out loud
to make people laugh
to laugh / laughter
to laugh
to laugh until it hurts; to laugh heartily
(bird species of China) laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis)
to laugh irrepressibly
laughing Maitreya
to laugh one's head off / ridiculous / jaw-dropping
(bird species of China) laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
canned laughter; laugh track
to amuse / to make sb laugh / to tease
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black


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