IDENTITY
笑xiàoto laugh; to smile
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
to laugh; to smile
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to laugh; to smileHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- ⺮bamboo radical (zhú)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱竹夭
- bamboo (bending like laughter)
- gives the sound xiào (historical)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
微笑wēixiàoto smile
笑话xiàohuajoke
大笑dàxiàoto laugh loudly
Graded examples
这个笑话很好笑。Zhège xiàohua hěn hǎoxiào.HSK3
This joke is very funny.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Bending like bamboo (⺮) with delight — laughing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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