哄堂大笑
hōngtángdàxiào
to burst into laughter; the whole room roars with laughter
Characters in this word
堂 táng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
笑 xiào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 夭 young, energetic
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 老师讲了个笑话，全班同学哄堂大笑。 Lǎoshī jiǎng le ge xiàohua, quán bān tóngxué hōngtáng dàxiào. The teacher told a joke, and the whole class burst into laughter.
- 听到这句话，会议室里的人都哄堂大笑起来。 Tīngdào zhè jù huà, huìyìshì lǐ de rén dōu hōngtáng dàxiào qǐlai. Hearing this, everyone in the meeting room burst out laughing.
- 小丑一摔倒，台下的观众哄堂大笑。 Xiǎochǒu yì shuāidǎo, tái xià de guānzhòng hōngtáng dàxiào. The moment the clown fell, the audience burst out laughing.
Related words
- 哄 hǒng to coax; to deceive
- 起哄 qǐhòng to heckle; to jeer; to make a commotion
- 课堂 kètáng classroom
- 食堂 shítáng cafeteria
- 殿堂 diàntáng palace hall; hall; highest realm of a field
- 礼堂 lǐtáng auditorium; assembly hall
- 堂 táng hall; main room; class/session; classifier for lessons
- 天堂 tiāntáng heaven; paradise
- 不大 búdà not very, not much
- 大 dà big, large; older
- 大学 dàxué university
- 大学生 dàxuéshēng university student