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笑话

xiào hua

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 笑話

笑话 (xiào hua) means "joke; jest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 笑话 means

1. joke; jest
2. to laugh at; to mock
3. ridiculous; absurd

The characters in 笑话

• 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 你在笑话谁？
  Who are you laughing at?
• 我很喜欢笑话。
  I love jokes.
• 连笑话也有限制。
  Lián xiàohuà yě yǒuxiàn zhì.
  Even jokes have a limit.
• 他们一直闹笑话。
  They were always making jokes.
• 他特别爱讲笑话。
  He especially loves to tell jokes.
• 我们没有笑话你。
  We weren't making fun of you.

Words starting with 笑话

• 笑话儿xiào hua rerhua form of 笑话

Words containing 笑话

• 冷笑话lěng xiào huacorny joke
• 看笑话kàn xiào huato watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself
• 地狱笑话dì yù xiào huà(colloquial) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally…
• 闹笑话nào xiào huato make a fool of oneself
• 荤笑话hūn xiào huadirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature

Where 笑话 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Dining & social customs (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiào hua correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.