Who are you laughing at?
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笑话
Traditional: 笑話
xiào hua
HSK 3.0 · 2HSK 2.0 · 4
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xiào hua
- joke; jest
- to laugh at; to mock
- ridiculous; absurd
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Character breakdown
笑
- Meaning
- smile, laugh, giggle; snicker
- Radical
- ⺮
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- ⿱⺮夭
- Cangjie
- HHK
- Four-corner
- 8843.2
话
- Meaning
- speech, talk, language; dialect
- Radical
- 讠
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- ⿰讠舌
- Cangjie
- IVHJR
- Four-corner
- 3276
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Example sentences
We weren't making fun of you.
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