开玩笑

开玩笑 kāiwánxiào in a sentence

Joke (make fun of)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 1 sentence

开玩笑 (kāiwánxiào) means Joke (make fun of). Below is the one sentence on this site that uses it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

From the graded readers

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

Questions about 开玩笑

How is 开玩笑 used in a sentence?

This page shows 1 sentence using 开玩笑 (kāiwánxiào, "Joke (make fun of)"), 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 开玩笑 an HSK word?

Yes — 开玩笑 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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