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开玩笑 kāi wán xiào to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
笑话 xiào hua joke; jest (CL:個|个[ge4]) / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd
nào noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke
当真 dàng zhēn to take seriously / serious / No joking, really!
dòu to tease (playfully); to entice / (coll.) to joke / (coll.) funny; amusing / to stay; to sojourn / brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4])
闹着玩儿 nào zhe wánr to play games / to joke around / to play a joke on sb
谈笑风生 tán xiào fēng shēng to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
抓哏 zhuā gén (of a comedian) to seize on something sb has just said or done to make an ad lib joke
玩笑 wán xiào to joke / joke / jest
gěng branch / stem / stalk / CL:根[gen1] / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
笑料 xiào liào comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes
说笑 shuō xiào to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter
戏说 shuō dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest
戏谑 xuè to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
xuè joy / to joke / to banter / to tease / to mock / Taiwan pr. [nu:e4]
打哈哈 ha to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly
逗哏 dòu gén funny man (lead role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4 kou3 xiang4 sheng1]) / to joke / to play the fool / to provoke laughter
逗闷子 dòu mèn zi (dialect) to joke
谐戏 xié to joke
恶作剧 è zuò practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
戏言 yán joking matter / to go back on one's words
靴子落地 xuē zi luò lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
耍贫嘴 shuǎ pín zuǐ (coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
笑点低 xiào diǎn amused by even the weakest joke / ready to laugh at the smallest thing
说着玩 shuō zhe wán to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around


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