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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
开车 kāi chē to drive a car (or train etc) / (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke
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!
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)
活雷锋 huó Léi Fēng a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1] (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
xuè joy / to joke / to banter / to tease / to mock / Taiwan pr. [nu:e4]
笑点低 xiào diǎn amused by even the weakest joke / ready to laugh at the smallest thing
毫无效果 háo xiào guǒ to no avail / achieving nothing / totally ineffective / to have no effect / to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)
戏谑 xuè to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
打哈哈 ha to joke / to laugh insincerely / to make merry / to talk irrelevantly
恶作剧 è zuò practical joke / prank / to play a practical 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
说笑 shuō xiào to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter
闹着玩儿 nào zhe wánr to play games / to joke around / to play a joke on sb
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)
戏言 yán joking matter / to go back on one's words
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
谐戏 xié to joke
谈笑风生 tán xiào fēng shēng to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
说着玩 shuō zhe wán to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around
笑料 xiào liào comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes
玩笑 wán xiào to joke / joke / jest
逗闷子 dòu mèn zi (dialect) to joke


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