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闹笑话

nào xiào hua

3-character word Traditional 鬧笑話

What 闹笑话 means

1. to make a fool of oneself

The characters in 闹笑话

• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 他们一直闹笑话。
  They were always making jokes.
• 幸运的是大家都明白了这个老外的意思，知道我只是闹笑话而友好地对我笑一下。
  Xìngyùn de shì dàjiā dōu míngbai le zhège lǎowài de yìsi, zhīdào wǒ zhǐshì nàoxiàohuà ér yǒuhǎo de duì wǒ xiào yīxià.
  Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.