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笑 (Kangxi radical 118,竹+4, 10 strokes,cangjie input竹竹大 (HHK),four-corner8843₂,composition⿱𥫗夭)

• 㗛,𢞖,𢲑,𣉧,𧏣,𧜕,𫹠,𭡻,𡮜,𫂪,𫛎,𬕓,𮆂

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 879, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25885
• Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2950, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7B11

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 笑(Chinese)
• 笑(Cantonese)
• chiéu(Eastern Min)
• chhiò(Min Nan)
• 笑(Wu)

Historical forms of the character笑
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) orphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sqʰows): phonetic 艸(OC*sʰuːʔ,“grass”) + semantic 犬(“dog”).Later,phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sqʰows): semantic 竹 + phonetic 夭(OC*qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).

笑

1. (intransitive) tolaugh; tosmile

   笑容  ― xiàoróng  ―  smile

   唔識笑／唔识笑[Cantonese]  ― m⁴ sik¹siu³[Jyutping]  ―  never smiles

2. (transitive) tolaugh at; toridicule

   點解你哋成日笑我㗎？[Cantonese,trad.]
   点解你哋成日笑我㗎？[Cantonese,simp.]

   dim² gaai² nei⁵ dei⁶ seng⁴ jat⁶siu³ ngo⁵ gaa³?[Jyutping]

   Why do you guys alwayslaugh at me?

3. (ditransitive) tolaugh at; toridicule

   笑佢唔識講廣東話[Cantonese,trad.]
   笑佢唔识讲广东话[Cantonese,simp.]

   siu³ keoi⁵ m⁴ sik¹ gong² gwong² dung¹ waa^6-2[Jyutping]

   tomake fun of them for not knowing how to speak Cantonese

4. (literary, or in compounds)funny;amusing

   笑話／笑话  ― xiàohuà  ―  joke (literally, “funny words”)

5. (obsolete, figurative) toblossom; tobloom
6. (rare)asurname

• (to laugh):

• (to ridicule):

• (to laugh at):嘲 (cháo),嗤 (chī)

• “笑”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• “笑”, in重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese),National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan),2021.
• “笑”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2026.
• “笑”, in臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2022.
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “笑”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page180.
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “1924 笑”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page476.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. tolaugh;laughter
2. tosmile; asmile

• Go-on:しょう(shō,Jōyō)^{←せう(seu,historical)}
• Kan-on:しょう(shō,Jōyō)^{←せう(seu,historical)}
• Kun:わらう(warau,笑う,Jōyō)^{←わらふ(warafu,笑ふ,historical)}、えむ(emu,笑む,Jōyō)^{←ゑむ(wemu,笑む,historical)}
• Nanori:えみ(emi)^{←ゑみ(wemi,historical)}

JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

笑い

Wikipedia^ja

The連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb笑う(warau,“to laugh; to smile”).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo)わらい[wàráí] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [β̞a̠ɾa̠i]

笑(わらい)• (warai) ^{←わらひ(warafi)?}

1. alaugh,laughing,laughter
2. asmile,smiling

More commonly spelled with theokurigana, as笑い.

Thewarai reading is more commonly associated with thelaugh senses. Theemi reading is more commonly associated with thesmile senses.

The連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb笑む(emu,“to smile; to bloom”).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo)えみ[éꜜmì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [e̞mʲi]

笑(えみ)• (emi) ^{←ゑみ(wemi)?}

1. asmile,smiling
2. abloom,blooming
3. theopening of anut or otherfruit as itripens

More commonly spelled with theokurigana, as笑み.

Theemi reading is more commonly associated with thesmile senses. Thewarai reading is more commonly associated with thelaugh senses.

笑(えみ)• (Emi) ^{←ゑみ(Wemi)?}

1. a femalegiven name
2. asurname

Likely related to theemi above. Perhaps a contraction of such.(Canthis⁽⁺⁾ etymology besourced?)

• IPA^(key): [e̞]

笑(え)• (e) ^←ゑ(we)?

1. (in compounds)smile

• 笑(え)顔(がお)(egao)
• 笑(え)酒(ぐし)(egushi)
• 笑(え)壺(つぼ)(etsubo)

笑 (eumhun웃을소(useul so))

1. hanja form^? of소(“laugh”)

笑:Hán Nôm readings:tiếu,téo

1. chữ Hán form oftiếu(“laugh”)

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