to laugh involuntarily; Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]
trad. 啞然失笑
Also written 啞然失笑【yǎ rán shī xiào】
Characters in this word
4哑
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(onom.) sound of cawing, sound of infant learning to talk, variant of 呀[ya1]
- Pinyin
- yā
- Traditional
- 啞
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 20803 of 2500
然
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correct, right, so, thus, like this, -ly
- Pinyin
- rán
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 2959 of 2500
失
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to lose, to miss, to fail
- Pinyin
- shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7657 of 2500
笑
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old variant of 笑[xiao4]
- Pinyin
- xiào
- Traditional
- 咲
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 534 of 2500