Mary chuckled to herself.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发笑
to burst out laughing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to burst out laughing
02
to laugh
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发笑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发笑 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I try not to laugh at my own jokes, but we all know I'm hilarious.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发笑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发笑.
Directly before
- 暗自发笑1
- 笑话发笑1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 发笑
What does 发笑 mean in Chinese?
发笑 (fāxiào) means to burst out laughing.
How do you pronounce 发笑?
发笑 is pronounced fāxiào.
Is 发笑 an HSK word?
发笑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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