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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 看笑话

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
看笑话 kàn xiào hua - to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 51,140 26,338

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
kān- to look after
- to take care of
- to watch
- to guard
kàn- to see; to look at
- to read
- to watch
- to visit; to call on
- to consider; to regard as
- to look after
- to treat (a patient or illness)
- to depend on
- to feel (that)
- (after a verb) to give it a try
- to watch out for
xiào- to laugh; to smile
- to laugh at
xiào- old variant of 笑[xiao4]
huà- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
huà- old variant of 話|话[hua4]

Other Words Containing 看笑话

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo