Keyword
laugh
Info
FrequencyTop 100
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
?
KankenLevel 7
Heisig1008
Readings
わら
(49%)
(39%)
Composed of
bamboo
early death
Mnemonic

Would you laugh if I told you that you can meet an early death being tortured and killed by a bamboo? That sounds ridiculous, I know! Bamboo grows so fast that you can literally tie someone down, place a few bamboo sprouts under him, and just wait until the bamboo pierces through him. Not so funny now, huh?

It's a real thing.

Used in vocabulary (243 in total)
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
smiling face; smile
smile
Examples (200 in total)
You will be laughed at.
I couldn't help laughing when I heard that story.
I can't stop laughing when I hear that story.