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啼tí笑xiào皆jiē非fēi

  1. lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); between laughter and tears

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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啼
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) to cry; to weep loudly, (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech

Pinyin
tí
Strokes
12
Frequency
49050 of 2500
Words starting with 啼Words ending in 啼Anywhere in a word
笑
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old variant of 笑[xiao4]

Pinyin
xiào
Traditional
咲
Strokes
10
Frequency
534 of 2500
Words starting with 笑Words ending in 笑Anywhere in a word
皆
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

all, each and every, in all cases

Pinyin
jiē
Strokes
9
Frequency
5113 of 2500
Words starting with 皆Words ending in 皆Anywhere in a word
非
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

Pinyin
Fēi
Strokes
8
Frequency
2078 of 2500
Words starting with 非Words ending in 非Anywhere in a word