Joke in Chinese
joke · HSK 4
笑话
- 笑 to laugh
- 话 words
Counted with 个: 一个笑话
他给我们讲了一个笑话。 He told us a joke.
Other ways to say joke
More words with 笑 or 话
How do you say joke in Chinese?
Joke in Chinese is 笑话 (xiào hua). You can also say 开玩笑 (kāi wán xiào), 戏 (xì).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.