| 幽默 | yōu mò | (loanword) humor / humorous |   |
| 风趣 | fēng qù | charm / humor / wit / humorous / witty | |
| 谐趣 | xié qù | humor / amusing | |
| 无厘头 | wú lí tóu | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century | |
| 幽默感 | yōu mò gǎn | sense of humor | |
| 阿凡提 | A1 fán tí | the Effendi (Nasreddin), the hero of folk tales of the Muslim world, known for his wisdom and humor | |
| 饶有 | ráo yǒu | full of (interest, humor, sentiment etc) | |
| 玻璃体 | bō lí tǐ | vitreous humor | |
| 饶有风趣 | ráo yǒu fēng qù | bubbling with humor (idiom) / witty and interesting | |
| 自我解嘲 | zì wǒ jiě cháo | to refer to one's foibles or failings with self-deprecating humor | |
| 妙语横生 | miào yǔ héng shēng | to be full of wit and humor | |
| 眼房水 | yǎn fáng shuǐ | aqueous humor | |
| 空耳 | kōng ěr | to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 / "soramimi") | |
