"Humor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yōu mò (loanword) humor / humorous
 fēng qù charm / humor / wit / humorous / witty
 xié qù humor / amusing
 wú lí tóu silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
 yōu mò gǎn sense of humor
 ráo yǒu full of (interest, humor, sentiment etc)
 bèi quilt / by / (indicates passive-voice clauses) / (literary) to cover / to meet with / (coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bei4 zi4 sha1])
 bō lí tǐ vitreous humor
 ráo yǒu fēng qù bubbling with humor (idiom) / witty and interesting
 zì wǒ jiě cháo to refer to one's foibles or failings with self-deprecating humor
 miào yǔ héng shēng to be full of wit and humor
 yǎn fáng shuǐ aqueous humor
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