Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 笑


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Meaning

laugh, smile

Pronunciation

SHŌ
warau, emu

Explanation

Top: bamboo , below: early-death 夭 (here: sky, heaven )

Mnemonic

Bamboo that grows up to heaven? This is to laugh!

Radicals

bamboo
heaven, sky
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Vocabulary

笑う わらう to laugh, to smile
笑い わらい laugh, laughter, smile
笑殺 しょうさつ laughing off, dismissing with a laugh
笑顔 えがお smiling face
嘲笑 ちょうしょう ridicule, scornful laughter
微笑 びしょう smile
微笑む ほほえむ to smile
あざ笑う あざわらう to sneer at, to ridicule

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