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 giggle / to laugh foolishly / to smirk / to simper
to sneer at sb / to ridicule
to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese
grinning from ear to ear (idiom) / beaming with happiness
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
comedy / farce
object of ridicule / laughingstock / to laugh over sth / to make light chat

Sentences with 笑

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