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笑

JLPT N3 SL4 10 strokes Frequency: #913

Meanings

Laugh

Radicals

⺮

Decomposition

⿱⺮夭

Etymology

Ideographic: A person 夭 with a big grin ⺮

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal right-to-left

5 horizontal right-to-left

6 diagonal right-to-left

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ショウ shou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

え e

わら wara

Words Using This Kanji

159 words total

Other (20 words)

豪傑笑いごうけつわらい

hearty laugh

笑覧しょうらん

(your) reading (of my work)

馬鹿笑いばかわらい

horse laugh

空笑いそらわらい

feigned laughter

破顔一笑はがんいっしょう

smiling broadly

薄笑いうすわらい

faint smile

物笑いものわらい

a laughingstock

微苦笑びくしょう

faint, ironic or bittersweet smile

忍び笑いしのびわらい

stifled laugh

笑いものわらいもの

laughingstock

笑い絵わらいえ

comic picture

笑われ者わらわれもの

laughingstock

笑話しょうわ

amusing story

笑声しょうせい

laugh

ご笑納ごしょうのう

please accept (this)

笑気しょうき

laughing gas

笑納しょうのう

please accept (this)

笑い顔わらいがお

smiling face

笑殺しょうさつ

laughing off

含み笑いふくみわらい

suppressed laugh

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