Character Details
| smile/laugh | Ascii: — | w408 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 笑 | xiào | tsee:ow | 4 | 竹 (bamboo) + 夭 (young) → laugh | 笑 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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When the people tried to build a tower of bamboo to reach the heavens, the gods just laughed and laughed. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Are you kidding？ | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 118 - 石 | shí | stand-up | stone | stone block | 石 破 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 竹 (bamboo) + 夭 (young) → laugh | 竹 (semantic) | 夭 (phonetic) | phonetic from 夭 | ||||||||