笑

comedian; comic celebrity; comic

servile smile; sycophantic smile; servile laugh; sycophantic laugh

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

laughing by oneself

Obsolete term

erotic pictures; shunga

crying with laughter

hearty laugh; loud laugh

to laugh to oneself; to smile to oneself

one's mood; one's caprice; a smile or a frown

Idiomatic expression

the pot calling the kettle black; the goop in the eye laughing at the snot in the nose

dimple on one cheek

Proverb

take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen

Suru verb - special class

to laugh (something) off; to dismiss with a laugh; to pooh-pooh

to make laugh; to set to laughing

heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling

age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of girls in their late teens); age where even chopsticks rolling is amusing

chuckle; snigger; laughing secretly

laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

breaking into a hearty laugh

Proverb

a child's emotions change easily; the bird that cried now laughs

to crack

ridiculous; laughable

Proverb

he who laughs last, laughs best

Proverb

take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen

a smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman

From Chinese 打開笑門福自來

good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile