笑
Meaning
- to laugh; to smile
- to laugh at
Example sentence
大家笑了。
Everybody laughed.
The character 笑
笑 is 竹, bamboo, over 夭 — a figure bent the way a stalk bends. It covers laughing and smiling at once: 笑话 a joke, 开玩笑 to be joking, 微笑 the smile itself.