开玩笑(kāi wán xiào)

HSK 13 charactersTrad. 開玩笑

to play a joke

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Word information

Pinyin
kāi wán xiào
Meaning
to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
HSK level
HSK 1
Characters
3
Traditional
開玩笑

Appears in lessons

开玩笑 is taught in these textbook lessons.

Volume 3 ·在饭馆儿 · At a RestaurantVolume 2 ·中国画跟油画不一样 · Chinese Paintings Are Different from Oil Paintings

Related words

Common words sharing a character with 开玩笑 — tap one to open its word page.

fēn分kāi开
HSK 2

to separate

gōng公kāi开
HSK 3

open; overt; public

zhào召kāi开
HSK 4

to convene (a conference or meeting)

gōng公kāi开xìn信
HSK 7-9

open letter

sān三qī七kāi开

ratio seventy to thirty

bù不kě可kāi开jiāo交

to be awfully (busy etc)

diū丢kāi开

to cast or put aside

dī低kāi开

(finance) (of the price of a security etc) to open lower than the previous closing price

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