old variant of 笑[xiao4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
to laugh; to smile / to laugh at

笑 character breakdown

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

Mnemonic symbol: a bamboo stick.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is cooking bamboo shoots in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He's cooking them in a large pot and stirs them with a bamboo stick (⺮).
tender / gentle / to die prematurely

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Snow White who had to die young—until the prince found her.

= 丿 + : In front of the aorta, a mysterious gentle robot hands Maud Younger a mysterious tender banana. Snow White is so hungry that it snatches the banana away and eats it instantly, just to die young again.
variant of 夭[yao1] / to die young / to die prematurely / Taiwan pr. [yao3]
bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.

Characters with 笑 as component

笑 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 笑

to joke / joke / jest
to play a joke / to make fun of / to joke
joke / jest / CL:個|个[ge4] / to laugh at / to mock
smile / CL:個|个[ge4],絲|丝[si1] / to smile
to jeer at / to deride / to ridicule / mockery / derision
to laugh happily / a belly-laugh
to giggle / to laugh foolishly / to smirk / to simper
to make a fool of oneself
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black
to laugh evilly

Sentences with 笑

dà
wáng
mò
ka̅i
wán
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mò
ka̅i
wán
xiào