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Humorous in Chinese

humorous · HSK 4

幽默 yōu mò

  1. 幽 yōu dark
  2. 默 mò silent

我们老师说话很幽默。 Our teacher speaks with a lot of humor.

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How do you say humorous in Chinese?

Humorous in Chinese is 幽默 (yōu mò).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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