开玩笑
kāi​wán​xiào HSK1

to joke

开玩笑 (開玩笑) kāi​wán​xiào
to joke verb
to joke; to say or do things in a playful or humorous way rather than seriously. This token corresponds to the verb phrase formed by 开 kāi and 玩笑 wán​xiào.
joke verb
to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke

他喜欢跟朋友开玩笑。

tā xǐ​huan gēn péng​you kāi​wán​xiào.

He likes to play jokes on his friends.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
71.7 per million appears in 28% of films
Written text
15.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 1

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICTAI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)