笑

See also: 咲

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 竹 + phonetic 夭.

A Chinese scholar once said “when bamboo takes the wind it leans back gently like a man who laughs”. This is only a mnemonic and not the etymology of the character.

Han character

笑 (radical 118 竹+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹大 (HHK), four-corner 8843₂, composition ⿱⺮夭)

1. smile, laugh, giggle
2. snicker

References

• KangXi: page 879, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25885
• Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2950, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7B11
• 2005, William McNaughton, Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition, edition 2nd Edition, Tuttle, ISBN 978-0804835091, page 14:

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Cantonese

Hanzi

笑 (Yale siu3)

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Japanese

Kanji

笑

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: わらう (笑う warau), えむ (笑む emu), わらい (笑い warai)

Compounds

• 笑酒 (えぐし, egushi)
• 笑気 (しょうき, shōki): laughing gas

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Korean

Hanja

笑 (so)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 소 (revised: so, McCune-Reischauer: so, Yale: so)

• Name (hangeul): 웃을()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

笑 (Pinyin shào (shao4), xiào (xiao4), Wade-Giles shao⁴, hsiao⁴)

Verb

笑 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xiào)

1. to laught
2. to smile
3. to laugh at

References

• "笑" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-18.

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Vietnamese

Han character

笑 (tiếu, téo)