取笑
qǔxiào
to tease; to make fun of
Characters in this word
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
- 他口音重，刚到学校时常被同学取笑。 Tā kǒuyīn zhòng, gāng dào xuéxiào shí cháng bèi tóngxué qǔxiào. His accent was strong, and when he first arrived at school he was often teased by classmates.
- 别取笑他，他刚学中文才三个月。 Bié qǔxiào tā, tā gāng xué zhōngwén cái sān gè yuè. Don't make fun of him — he has only been learning Chinese for three months.
- 同事之间开玩笑可以，但绝不能取笑别人。 Tóngshì zhījiān kāi wánxiào kěyǐ, dàn jué bùnéng qǔxiào biérén. It is fine to joke among colleagues, but one must never make fun of others.
Related words
- 取 qǔ to take; to pick up
- 取得 qǔdé to achieve; to obtain
- 采取 cǎiqǔ to take; to adopt
- 取消 qǔxiāo to cancel
- 争取 zhēngqǔ to strive for; to win over
- 获取 huòqǔ to obtain
- 录取 lùqǔ to admit; to accept into school
- 夺取 duóqǔ to capture, to take by force
- 取代 qǔdài to replace
- 收取 shōuqǔ to collect
- 提取 tíqǔ to extract
- 听取 tīngqǔ to listen to, to hear