(xiào) - to laugh, to smile in Mandarin
xiàoTraditional: 笑
Translation
to laugh, to smile
Word origin
The character 笑 (xiào) 'to laugh, to smile' carries the 竹 'bamboo' radical above; the lower component is variously analysed and the link between bamboo and laughter is debated, so the breakdown below is conservative.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 竹 (bamboo radical) + 夭 (lower component)
Stroke order
笑
Examples
。
He laughed happily.
。
Please don't laugh at me.
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Her smile is lovely.
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The children all laughed when they heard it.
笑 (xiào) - to laugh, to smile.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 笑.
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