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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 |
| 闹 | 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! |
| 逗 | 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 |
| 玩笑 | wán xiào | to joke / joke / jest |
| 梗 | 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) |
| 戏说 | xì 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 |
| 笑料 | xiào liào | comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes |
| 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 |
| 戏言 | xì yán | joking matter / to go back on one's words |
| 谑 | xuè | joy / to joke / to banter / to tease / to mock / Taiwan pr. [nu:e4] |
| 说笑 | shuō xiào | to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter |
| 打哈哈 | dǎ hā ha | to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly |
| 逗闷子 | dòu mèn zi | (dialect) to joke |
| 恶作剧 | è zuò jù | practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke |
| 戏谑 | xì xuè | to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule |
| 谐戏 | xié xì | to joke |
| 抓哏 | zhuā gén | (of a comedian) to seize on something sb has just said or done to make an ad lib joke |
| 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 |
| 打镲 | dǎ chǎ | (dialect) to joke / to make fun of (sb) |
| 靴子落地 | xuē zi luò dì | 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) |
| 打棚 | dǎ péng | (dialect) to joke |