笑话

笑话 xiàohuà in a sentence

Joke (jest)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

笑话 (xiàohuà) means Joke (jest). Below are 2 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

他讲了一个 笑话

Tā jiǎng le yí ge xiàohua.

He told a joke.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 笑话

他说错了,你们别 笑话 他。

Tā shuō cuò le, nǐmen bié xiàohua tā.

He got it wrong; do not laugh at him.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 笑话

Questions about 笑话

How is 笑话 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 笑话 (xiàohuà, "Joke (jest)"), 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.

Is 笑话 an HSK word?

Yes — 笑话 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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The dictionary page for 笑话 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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