笑
xiào HSK1

smile

笑 xiào frequency
variant 咲
to smile or laugh verb
to have a happy expression on one's face or make sounds expressing joy; to smile; to laugh

我不喜欢他笑的样子。

wǒ bù xǐ​huan tā xiào de yàng​zi.

I don't like how he laughs.

to ridicule verb
to laugh at someone; to mock or make fun of

他们在笑我们。

tā​men zài xiào wǒ​men.

They're laughing at us.

笑 xiào
funny nounadjective
comical; amusing; causing laughter
(honorific) to accept
(bound form) used as a polite expression when giving a gift, asking the recipient to kindly accept it; same as 笑纳 xiào​nà
surname
a Chinese surname

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Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
346th most common 635.1 per million
Movie subtitles
327th most common 475.7 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
197.6 per million appears in 45% of films
Written text
390.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7B11

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)