"Funny" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 逗 |  dòu | to tease (playfully) / to entice / (coll.) to joke / (coll.) funny / amusing / to stay / to sojourn / brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4]) |   |
| 好笑 | hǎo xiào | laughable / funny / ridiculous | |
| 可笑 | kě xiào | funny / ridiculous | |
| 滑稽 | huá jī | comical / funny / amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]) / huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang | |
| 噱头 | xué tóu | amusing speech or act / jokes / antics / funny / amusing / Taiwan pr. [xue1 tou2] | |
| 逗人 | dòu rén | amusing / funny / entertaining | |
| 哏 | gén | funny / amusing / sth comical | |
| 搞笑 | gǎo xiào | to get people to laugh / funny / hilarious | |
| 那个 | nà ge | that one / that thing / that (as opposed to this) / (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis) / (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word) / (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc) / (euph.) menstruation / sex / also pr. [nei4 ge5] | |
| 包袱 | bāo fu | wrapping cloth / a bundle wrapped in cloth / load / weight / burden / funny part / punchline | |
| 哭笑不得 | kū xiào bù dé | lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / both funny and extremely embarrassing / between laughter and tears | |
| 趣闻 | qù wén | funny news item / interesting anecdote | |
| 对口相声 | duì kǒu xiàng shēng | comic crosstalk / formalized comic dialogue between two stand-up comics: funny man 逗哏[dou4 gen2] and straight man 捧哏[peng3 gen2] | |
| 逗哏 | dòu gén | funny man (lead role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4 kou3 xiang4 sheng1]) / to joke / to play the fool / to provoke laughter | |
| 怪样 | guài yàng | odd expression / funny looks / queer face / to grimace / to give sb funny looks / to pull faces | |
| 捧哏 | pěng gén | straight man (supporting role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4kou3 xiang4sheng1]) / (of a straight man) to react with exasperation to the silliness of the funny man 逗哏[dou4gen2] | |
| 笑点 | xiào diǎn | funny bits / humorous parts / jokes / punchline | |
| 梗王 | gěng wáng | (coll.) person who makes people laugh / funny guy | |
