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啼笑皆非 (tai4 siu3 gaai1 fei1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

啼笑皆非 (tai4 siu3 gaai1 fei1, tí xiào jiē fēi) — lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); between laughter and tears

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 啼 (tai4) — to cry; to weep aloud; to crow; to hoot; to howl; to twitter
• 啼哭 (tai4 huk1) — to cry; to wail
• 啼囀 (tai4 zyun2) — to call sweetly (of birds)
• 啼聲 (tai4 seng1) — ululation; to howl
• 啼饑號寒 (tai4 gei1 hou4 hon4) — (idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty
• 剃刀門楣 (tai3 dou1 mun4 mei4) — shaving more than one time, to refer too much levy

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