哈哈大笑 (hā hā dà xiào) — to roar with laughter; to laugh heartily

Definition

verb
to roar with laughterto laugh heartily

Examples

  • ，哈哈大笑。
    Tīng dào zhè ge hǎo xiāo xi, tā rěn bú zhù hā hā dà xiào.
    Hearing this good news, he couldn't help roaring with laughter.
  • 哈哈大笑。
    Guān zhòng bèi xiǎo pǐn dòu dé hā hā dà xiào.
    The audience was amused by the skit and roared with laughter.
  • ，哈哈大笑。
    Tā men jiǎng le yí gè xiào hua, dà jiā lì kè hā hā dà xiào.
    They told a joke, and everyone immediately roared with laughter.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

哈哈laughter
哈hā哈hā
重叠Reduplication
大笑laugh heartily
大dàbig笑xiàolaugh
偏正Modifier + head

哈哈 gives the laughter sound, and 大笑 is a big laugh, so it means to laugh out loud.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
口口kǒumouth
Sound part声符shēngfú
合
合hé哈hā
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

哈 uses 口 (mouth) to show a mouth-related idea, and 合 as a sound part. The shape of 合 may look like two open mouths, but that is likely by chance.

Open 哈 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
口口kǒumouth
Sound part声符shēngfú
合
合hé哈hā
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

哈 uses 口 (mouth) to show a mouth-related idea, and 合 as a sound part. The shape of 合 may look like two open mouths, but that is likely by chance.

Open 哈 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

Open 大 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
犬犬quǎndog
Sound part声符shēngfú
艸
艸cǎo笑xiào
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

An early 笑 used the grass 艸 for the sound and the dog 犬 for the meaning; later it was written with 竹 and 夭.

Open 笑 →

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