"呵呵" meaning in All languages combined

See 呵呵 on Wiktionary

Interjection [Chinese]

IPA: /xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/, /hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: hēhē [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hēhē [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], hehe [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], ho¹-ho¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], hē-hē [Mandarin, Yale], hehe [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], хэхэ [Mandarin, Palladius], xɛxɛ [Mandarin, Palladius], hō hō [Cantonese, Yale], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], xa xa [Middle-Chinese]
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē). Etymology templates: {{onom|zh}} Onomatopoeic, {{m+|en|haha}} English haha, {{zh-l|哈哈}} 哈哈 (hāhā), {{ltc-l|呵|id=1}} 呵 (MC xa), {{zh-l|呵}} 呵 (hē) Head templates: {{head|zh|interjection}} 呵呵
  1. (onomatopoeia) sound of laughter Tags: onomatopoeic Categories (topical): Laughter
    Sense id: en-呵呵-zh-intj-yMPF-qVp Disambiguation of Laughter: 57 41 2 Categories (other): Chinese onomatopoeias, Chinese onomatopoeias Disambiguation of Chinese onomatopoeias: 55 40 4
  2. (onomatopoeia, ironic) sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter Tags: ironic, onomatopoeic
    Sense id: en-呵呵-zh-intj-SB4i-ztN Categories (other): Chinese onomatopoeias
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 呵呵噠 (hēhēdā), 呵呵哒 (hēhēdā), 呵呵大笑 (hēhē dàxiào), 笑呵呵 (xiàohēhē), 樂呵呵, 乐呵呵

Suffix [Chinese]

IPA: /xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/, /hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: hēhē [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hēhē [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], hehe [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], ho¹-ho¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], hē-hē [Mandarin, Yale], hehe [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], хэхэ [Mandarin, Palladius], xɛxɛ [Mandarin, Palladius], hō hō [Cantonese, Yale], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ho¹ ho¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], xa xa [Middle-Chinese]
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē). Etymology templates: {{onom|zh}} Onomatopoeic, {{m+|en|haha}} English haha, {{zh-l|哈哈}} 哈哈 (hāhā), {{ltc-l|呵|id=1}} 呵 (MC xa), {{zh-l|呵}} 呵 (hē) Head templates: {{head|zh|suffix}} 呵呵
  1. an expressive suffix for adjectives Tags: morpheme Derived forms: 傻呵呵 (shǎhēhē), 冷呵呵, 怔呵呵, 胖呵呵
    Sense id: en-呵呵-zh-suffix-DcI40zaf Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 6 6 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 樂呵呵, 乐呵呵

Adverb [Japanese]

IPA: [ka̠ka̠] Forms: 呵呵 [canonical] (ruby: (), ()), kaka [romanization]
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle Chinese 呵呵 (MC xa xa). First cited to a text from roughly 900 CE. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=かか}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|呵呵|id=1,1}} 呵呵 (MC xa xa), {{C.E.|nodots=1}} CE, {{CE}} CE Head templates: {{ja-noun|かか}} 呵(か)呵(か) • (kaka)
  1. (literary) laughingly Tags: literary Synonyms: あはは, からから Derived forms: 呵呵然 (kakazen) (ruby: (), (), (ぜん)) (english: laughing) [adjective], 呵呵大笑 (kaka taishō) (ruby: (), (), (たい), (しょう)) (english: a belly laugh, a guffaw) [noun]

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      "roman": "hēhēdā",
      "word": "呵呵噠"
    },
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      "roman": "hēhēdā",
      "word": "呵呵哒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "hēhē dàxiào",
      "word": "呵呵大笑"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xiàohēhē",
      "word": "笑呵呵"
    },
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    },
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    }
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "haha"
      },
      "expansion": "English haha",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "哈哈"
      },
      "expansion": "哈哈 (hāhā)",
      "name": "zh-l"
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  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).",
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  "pos": "intj",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 41 2",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Laughter",
          "orig": "zh:Laughter",
          "parents": [
            "Happiness",
            "Reflexes",
            "Emotions",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Recently I wrote some little ci poems. Though hardly comparable to Mister Liu's style, they're in my own character. Haha!",
          "ref": "近作小詞,雖無柳七郎風味,亦自是一家。呵呵! [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "近作小词,虽无柳七郎风味,亦自是一家。呵呵! [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: c. late 11th century, Su Shi (蘇軾), Letter to Xianyu Zijun (《與鮮于子駿》)\nJìn zuò xiǎocí, suīwú Liǔ Qīláng fēngwèi, yì zìshì yījiā. Hēhē! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of laughter"
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          "onomatopoeia"
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          "laughter",
          "laughter"
        ]
      ],
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        "(onomatopoeia) sound of laughter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Heh, you aren't up to it.",
          "roman": "Hēhē, nǐ bùxíng.",
          "text": "呵呵,你不行。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter"
      ],
      "id": "en-呵呵-zh-intj-SB4i-ztN",
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        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
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          "ironic",
          "irony"
        ],
        [
          "derisive",
          "derisive"
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        [
          "perfunctory",
          "perfunctory"
        ],
        [
          "laughter",
          "laughter"
        ]
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      ],
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        "ironic",
        "onomatopoeic"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹-ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hē-hē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэхэ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛxɛ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hō hō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xa xa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "樂呵呵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "乐呵呵"
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "English haha",
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      },
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  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).",
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "6 6 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "shǎhēhē",
          "word": "傻呵呵"
        },
        {
          "word": "冷呵呵"
        },
        {
          "word": "怔呵呵"
        },
        {
          "word": "胖呵呵"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an expressive suffix for adjectives"
      ],
      "id": "en-呵呵-zh-suffix-DcI40zaf",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹-ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hē-hē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэхэ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛxɛ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hō hō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xa xa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}

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        {
          "english": "laughing",
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              "呵",
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        {
          "english": "a belly laugh, a guffaw",
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              "か"
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            [
              "呵",
              "か"
            ],
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              "大",
              "たい"
            ],
            [
              "笑",
              "しょう"
            ]
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          "tags": [
            "noun"
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          "word": "呵呵大笑"
        }
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        "laughingly"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) laughingly"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "あはは"
        },
        {
          "word": "からから"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
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    }
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    {
      "other": "かか"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ka̠ka̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}
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    "Chinese interjections",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese onomatopoeias",
    "Chinese suffixes",
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    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Laughter"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "hēhēdā",
      "word": "呵呵噠"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hēhēdā",
      "word": "呵呵哒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hēhē dàxiào",
      "word": "呵呵大笑"
    },
    {
      "word": "樂呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "乐呵呵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiàohēhē",
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    }
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      },
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      "name": "m+"
    },
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      },
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        "id": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "呵 (MC xa)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "呵"
      },
      "expansion": "呵 (hē)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "呵呵",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese onomatopoeias",
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Recently I wrote some little ci poems. Though hardly comparable to Mister Liu's style, they're in my own character. Haha!",
          "ref": "近作小詞,雖無柳七郎風味,亦自是一家。呵呵! [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "近作小词,虽无柳七郎风味,亦自是一家。呵呵! [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: c. late 11th century, Su Shi (蘇軾), Letter to Xianyu Zijun (《與鮮于子駿》)\nJìn zuò xiǎocí, suīwú Liǔ Qīláng fēngwèi, yì zìshì yījiā. Hēhē! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of laughter"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ],
        [
          "laughter",
          "laughter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia) sound of laughter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese onomatopoeias",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Heh, you aren't up to it.",
          "roman": "Hēhē, nǐ bùxíng.",
          "text": "呵呵,你不行。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ],
        [
          "ironic",
          "irony"
        ],
        [
          "derisive",
          "derisive"
        ],
        [
          "perfunctory",
          "perfunctory"
        ],
        [
          "laughter",
          "laughter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia, ironic) sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ironic",
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹-ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hē-hē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэхэ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛxɛ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hō hō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xa xa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese interjections",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese onomatopoeias",
    "Chinese suffixes",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Laughter"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "shǎhēhē",
      "word": "傻呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "冷呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "怔呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "樂呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "乐呵呵"
    },
    {
      "word": "胖呵呵"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh"
      },
      "expansion": "Onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onom"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "haha"
      },
      "expansion": "English haha",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "哈哈"
      },
      "expansion": "哈哈 (hāhā)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "呵",
        "id": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "呵 (MC xa)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "呵"
      },
      "expansion": "呵 (hē)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "呵呵",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an expressive suffix for adjectives"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēhē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹-ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hē-hē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hehe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэхэ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛxɛ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hō hō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho¹ ho¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xa xa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "laughing",
      "roman": "kakazen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "然",
          "ぜん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "呵呵然"
    },
    {
      "english": "a belly laugh, a guffaw",
      "roman": "kaka taishō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "大",
          "たい"
        ],
        [
          "笑",
          "しょう"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "呵呵大笑"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ltc",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "かか"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Chinese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "呵呵",
        "id": "1,1"
      },
      "expansion": "呵呵 (MC xa xa)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "nodots": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "CE",
      "name": "C.E."
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "CE",
      "name": "CE"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Middle Chinese 呵呵 (MC xa xa).\nFirst cited to a text from roughly 900 CE.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "呵呵",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "呵",
          "か"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kaka",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "かか"
      },
      "expansion": "呵(か)呵(か) • (kaka)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese literary terms",
        "Japanese nouns",
        "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
        "Japanese terms spelled with hyōgaiji kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms written with two Han script characters"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laughingly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "laughingly",
          "laughingly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) laughingly"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "あはは"
        },
        {
          "word": "からから"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "かか"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ka̠ka̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "呵呵"
}
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  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "呵呵"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "呵呵",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "呵呵"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "呵呵",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "呵呵"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adverb",
  "title": "呵呵",
  "trace": ""
}

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