看笑话

看笑話
kànxiàohuà

to amuse oneself by watching other people make fools of themselves; to watch the fun; to have a good laugh at

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看笑话 kànxiàohua to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself

Entry Composition

=1 看 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=1 看 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
=2 笑话 xiàohua
  1. to laugh at; to mock
  2. ridiculous; absurd

classifier: 個
=2 笑话 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: 句 m; 個／个 c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at