笑 (xiào) means Laugh (smile). Below are 24 of the 58 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
大家听了都 笑 了。
Dàjiā tīng le dōu xiào le.
Everyone laughed when they heard it.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 笑
他很会逗孩子 笑 。
Tā hěn huì dòu háizi xiào.
He is good at making children laugh.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 逗
他 笑 得有点狡猾。
Tā xiào de yǒudiǎn jiǎohuá.
There was something sly in his smile.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 狡猾
他调皮地 笑 了 笑 。
Tā tiáopí de xiào le xiào.
He gave a mischievous smile.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 调皮
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From the graded readers
台下有人 笑 了。
tái xià yǒurén xiào le / liǎo / liào.
Someone in the audience laughed.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
他 笑 了 笑 说：“你觉得呢？”
tā xiào le / liǎo / liào xiào shuō:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
He smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
奶奶 笑 着说：“那就是一家人。”
nǎinai xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó shuō:" nà / nèi jiùshì yī jiārén."
My grandmother smiled and said, "Then we're all together."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
他 笑 着说：“没关系，我也刚到。”
tā xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó shuō:" méiguānxi, wǒ yě gāng dào."
He smiled and said, "Never mind — I've only just got here myself."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
妈妈 笑 了：“没关系，明天再买吧。”
māma xiào le / liǎo / liào:" méiguānxi, míngtiān zài mǎi bā."
Mum laughed: "Never mind, buy it tomorrow."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我站在路边喘气，觉得自己特别可 笑 。
wǒ zhàn zài lùbiān chuǎn qì, juéde zìjǐ tèbié kěxiào.
I stood by the road getting my breath back, feeling faintly ridiculous.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
她 笑 着说：“重要的东西都带不走。”
tā xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó shuō:" zhòngyào de / dì dōngxī dōu dài bù zǒu."
She smiled and said, "The things that matter can't be packed."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
他们 笑 得很开心，看起来大概二十岁左右。
tāmen xiào dehěn kāixīn, kànqǐlái dàgài èrshí suì zuǒyòu.
They were laughing happily and looked about twenty.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
她 笑 着说：“换成是我，我也希望有人这样做。”
tā xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó shuō:" huànchéng shì wǒ, wǒ yě xīwàng yǒurén zhèyàng zuò."
She smiled and said, "If it were me, I'd hope someone would do the same."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
那条消息是她十四岁的弟弟发的，本来是开玩 笑 。
nà / nèi tiáo xiāoxi shì tā shísì suì de / dì dìdi fā de / dì, běnlái shì kāiwánxiào.
The message had been sent by her fourteen-year-old brother, as a joke.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the grammar library
笑 appears in 58 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 笑
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 笑
How is 笑 used in a sentence?
This page shows 58 sentences using 笑 (xiào, "Laugh (smile)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 笑 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 笑 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 笑 an HSK word?
Yes — 笑 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 笑?
The dictionary page for 笑 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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