Pinyin: xiào

to laugh; to smile

Example sentence

孩子们都笑了。

Háizimen dōu xiào le.

The children all laughed.

What 笑 means

(xiào) is a Chinese word meaning “to laugh; to smile”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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