啼笑皆非
tí xiào jiē fēi
Pinyin

Definition

啼笑皆非
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tí xiào jiē fēi
  1. lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
  2. between laughter and tears

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
xiào róng
  1. 1 smile
  2. 2 smiling expression
  3. 3 classifier: 副 fù
xiào huà
  1. 1 joke
  2. 2 jest
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 to laugh at
  5. 5 to mock

Idioms (20)

一着不慎,满盘皆输
yī zhāo bù shèn , mǎn pán jiē shū
  1. 1 One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
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)