开玩笑 — Semantide dictionary

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开kāi玩wán笑xiào

to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
trad. 開玩笑

Also written 開玩笑【kāi wán xiào】

Characters in this word

3

开

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to open (transitive or intransitive), (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start, to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run, to boil, to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc), (directional complement) away; off, carat (gold), abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2], abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

Pinyin: kāi
Traditional: 開

Strokes: 4
Frequency: 467 of 2500

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玩

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to play, to have fun, to trifle with, toy, sth used for amusement, curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]), to keep sth for entertainment

Pinyin: wán

Strokes: 8
Frequency: 390 of 2500

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笑

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old variant of 笑[xiao4]

Pinyin: xiào
Traditional: 咲

Strokes: 10
Frequency: 534 of 2500

Words starting with 笑 Words ending in 笑 Anywhere in a word