Just joshing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
玩笑
to joke
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to joke
02
joke
03
jest
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 玩笑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 玩笑 appears in 26 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She would often play tricks on me.
She took my joke seriously.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 玩笑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 玩笑.
Directly before
- 的玩笑8
- 一个玩笑6
- 个玩笑5
- 归玩笑1
- 开个玩笑1
Directly after
- 玩笑是2
- 玩笑而已2
- 玩笑开2
- 玩笑当真1
- 玩笑归1
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 玩笑
What does 玩笑 mean in Chinese?
玩笑 (wánxiào) means to joke.
How do you pronounce 玩笑?
玩笑 is pronounced wánxiào.
Is 玩笑 an HSK word?
玩笑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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