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笑话

xiào hua

HSK 2 · word 1085 of 3,000

Meaning

• joke; jest
• to laugh at; to mock
• ridiculous; absurd

Example sentence

Characters in 笑话

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

笑 to laugh plus 话, speech. A joke is laughing speech, and 开玩笑 is the verb for making one.

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