Traditional: 笑話
笑话 (xiào hua) means “joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock”. It is an HSK 4 Chinese word (traditional 笑話) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Measure word: 个
Practice each character:
他讲了一个笑话。
Tā jiǎng le yí gè xiàohua.
He told a joke.
Updated: 2026-05-27