似笑非笑
sì xiào fēi xiào
Pinyin

Definition

似笑非笑
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sì xiào fēi xiào
  1. like a smile yet not a smile (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shì
  1. 1 see also: 似的 shì de
sì hū
  1. 1 apparently
  2. 2 to seem
  3. 3 to appear
  4. 4 as if
  5. 5 seemingly
xiào
  1. 1 old variant of 笑[xiào]
wēi xiào
  1. 1 smile
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 丝 sī
  4. 4 to smile
gǎo xiào
  1. 1 to get people to laugh
  2. 2 funny
  3. 3 hilarious

Idioms (20)

五十步笑百步
wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù
  1. 1 the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom)
  2. 2 the pot calls the kettle black
今非昔比
jīn fēi xī bǐ
  1. 1 things are very different now (idiom)
  2. 2 times have changed
付之一笑
fù zhī yī xiào
  1. 1 to dismiss sth with a laugh (idiom)
  2. 2 to laugh it off
似是而非
sì shì ér fēi
  1. 1 apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
似水年华
sì shuǐ nián huá
  1. 1 fleeting years (idiom)