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开玩笑 kāi wán xiào

HSK 4 word · traditional 開玩笑

Meanings

• to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke

Characters

• 开 kāi: to open (transitive or intransitive)
• 玩 wán: to play
• 笑 xiào: to laugh; to smile

Example sentences

我开玩笑。
I'm just kidding.
Tatoeba #398518 by GlossaMatik (CC BY 2.0 FR)

我不开玩笑。
I'm not kidding.
Tatoeba #3656925 by Wu (CC BY 2.0 FR)

你在开玩笑吗？
Are you kidding?
Tatoeba #7768013 by jiangche (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Meanings and readings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).