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嘲笑

cháo xiào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

嘲笑 (cháo xiào) means "to mock, jeer at". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 嘲笑 means

1. to jeer at
2. to deride
3. to ridicule
4. mockery
5. derision

The characters in 嘲笑

• 嘲cháoto ridicule; to mock
• 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at

Example sentences

• 他嘲笑我。
  He mocks me.
• 他怕被嘲笑。
  He was afraid of being laughed at.
• 她嘲笑我的诗。
  She scoffed at my poem.
• 你在嘲笑我吗？
  Are you laughing at me?
• 请别嘲笑我们。
  Please don't laugh at us.
• 我们不能嘲笑穷人。
  We must not laugh at the poor.

Where 嘲笑 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chàng–zhāo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cháo xiào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.