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哄堂大笑

hōng táng dà xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

哄堂大笑 (hōng táng dà xiào) means "the whole room roaring with laughter (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 哄堂大笑 means

1. the whole room roaring with laughter (idiom)

The characters in 哄堂大笑

• 哄hōngroar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)
• 堂táng(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the…
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at

Example sentences

• 哄堂大笑。
  The whole audience erupted in laughter.

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