笑 — laugh

わらう笑 laugh

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+7B11 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #913 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1008 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

laugh

word

わら wara Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

笑(わら) う warau to laugh 笑(わら) い warai laughter 笑(わら) える waraeru to be able to laugh お笑(わら) い owarai comedy 大(おお) 笑(わら) い oowarai loud laughter 笑(わら) わせる warawaseru to make someone laugh 笑(わら) い声(ごえ) waraigoe laughter

しょう shou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

苦(く) 笑(しょう) kushou bitter smile 爆(ばく) 笑(しょう) bakushou roar of laughter 嘲(ちょう) 笑(しょう) choushou ridicule

え e Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

笑(え) 顔(がお) egao smiling face 笑(え) み emi smile 微(ほほ) 笑(え) む hohoemu to smile

わらい warai Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

笑(わらい) warai laugh

か ka Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

可(お) 笑(か) しい okashii funny

Appears in idioms

笑止千万四字熟語

laugh, stop, thousand, ten thousand

笑う門には福来る諺

Fortune comes to the laughing gate

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たけ竹 bamboo #118

夭 young

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#118 竹 bamboo