xiào hua

Traditional: 笑話

HSK 2

笑话 (xiào hua) is a Chinese word meaning “joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd”.

Meanings

  1. 1joke; jest
  2. 2to laugh at; to mock
  3. 3ridiculous; absurd
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 笑话

笑xiào · to laugh; to smile话huà · dialect

Related words

话dialect话old variant of 話|话[hua4]电话telephone打电话to make a telephone call说话to speak笑to laugh; to smile笑old variant of 笑[xiao4]玩笑to joke开玩笑to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke谈话to talk (with sb)实话truth说实话to speak the truth

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