哑然失笑

to laugh involuntarily / Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]

(onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1]

dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)

mute; dumb; incapable of speech / (of a voice) hoarse; husky / (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud

correct / right / so / thus / like this / -ly

to lose / to miss / to fail

to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter

old variant of 笑[xiao4]

laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

to laugh; to smile / to laugh at