Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/笑-xiào-laugh,-laugh-at
< Language | Mandarin-chinese | Vocabulary
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Rate this lesson: 
笑 xiào laugh, laugh at in Mandarin Chinese
Definition[edit | edit source]
Radical is 竹 zhú “bamboo.” The colloquial name for this radical is 竹字头 (竹字頭) zhúzìtóu “top made up of the character 竹.” When it is a radical, the third and sixth strokes of 竹 are shortened. Phonetic is 夭 yāo “die young.”
Examples[edit | edit source]
- 笑 xiào laugh, laugh at [V]
- 可笑 kĕxiào be laughable, funny [SV]
- 笑话 (笑話) xiàohua joke [N]; laugh at, ridicule [V]
- 说笑话 (說笑話) shuō xiàohua tell a joke
- 讲笑話 (講笑话) jiăng xiàohua tell a joke
Video[edit | edit source]
Sources[edit | edit source]
Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- 画(畫) huà paint; painting
- 一起 yìqǐ
- 送 sòng give
- 诉(訴) sù tell
- Count to 10
- 活 huó live
- 育(育) yù education
- Body
- 随(隨) suí follow
- 伤(傷) shāng wound, injury; injure, hurt
- 内(內) nèi inside, within
- 险(險) xiăn danger
- Wishes
- 接 jiē receive, meet, welcome
- 各 gè each, every