苦笑
kǔ xiào
Pinyin

Definition

苦笑
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kǔ xiào
  1. to force a smile
  2. a bitter laugh

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
tòng kǔ
  1. 1 pain
  2. 2 suffering
  3. 3 painful
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
xiào róng
  1. 1 smile
  2. 2 smiling expression
  3. 3 classifier: 副 fù

Idioms (20)

不胜其苦
bù shèng qí kǔ
  1. 1 unable to bear the pain (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
付之一笑
fù zhī yī xiào
  1. 1 to dismiss sth with a laugh (idiom)
  2. 2 to laugh it off
似笑非笑
sì xiào fēi xiào
  1. 1 like a smile yet not a smile (idiom)
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits