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笑

笑

See also: 咲

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 笑
alt. forms 关
咲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笑 *sqʰows
夭 *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
镺 *qoːwʔ, *qoːws
芺 *qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
妖 *qrow
祅 *qrow
枖 *qrow
訞 *qrow
殀 *qrowʔ
仸 *qrowʔ
妋 *pa, *qu
飫 *qos
沃 *qoːwɢ
鋈 *qoːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰows) : semantic 竹 + phonetic 夭 ‎(OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 笑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s-l]aw-s/
English to laugh

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 笑
Reading # 1/1
No. 14621
Phonetic
component		 夭
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 𥬇
Old
Chinese		 /*sqʰows/
Notes 原下從犬，注或作此。漢書作八下夭

Definitions

笑

  1. to laugh; to smile
    笑容  ―  xiàoróng  ―  smile
  2. to laugh at; to ridicule
  3. funny; amusing
  4. A surname​.

See also

  • (to laugh at): 嘲 (cháo), 嗤 (chī)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

笑

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to laugh; laughter
  2. to smile; a smile

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
笑
わら(い)
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

The 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 笑う ‎(warau, “to laugh; to smile”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

笑 ‎(hiragana わらい, romaji warai, historical hiragana わらひ)

  1. a laugh, laughing, laughter
  2. a smile, smiling
Usage notes

More commonly spelled with the okurigana, as 笑い.

The warai reading is more commonly associated with the laugh senses. The emi reading is more commonly associated with the smile senses.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
笑
え(み)
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 笑む ‎(emu, “to smile; to laugh”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

笑 ‎(hiragana えみ, romaji emi, historical hiragana ゑみ)

  1. a smile, smiling
  2. a laugh, laughing, laughter
Usage notes

More commonly spelled with the okurigana, as 笑み.

The emi reading is more commonly associated with the smile senses. The warai reading is more commonly associated with the laugh senses.

Proper noun

笑 ‎(hiragana えみ, romaji Emi, historical hiragana ゑみ)

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

References

  1. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 3 4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

笑 • ‎(so)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 소 (McCune-Reischauer: so, Yale: so)
  • Name (hangeul): 웃을()
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Vietnamese

Han character

笑 (tiếu, téo)

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