xúnkāixīn

寻开心

Word · VerbTraditional尋開心

seek amusement; make fun; joke

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Meanings

1 sense · 3 examples
1.

verb

to seek amusement; to make fun of; to joke

dialect

Commonly used in casual speech. Often implies teasing someone for one's own amusement. In some dialects, the first character is pronounced xín.

Nǐ你
bié别
ná拿
wǒ我
xún寻
kāi开
xīn心
le了
 。

Stop making fun of me.

Tā他
zhè这
yàng样
zuò做
chún纯
cuì粹
shì是
wèi为
le了
xún寻
kāi开
xīn心
 。

He did this purely for his own amusement.

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Bié别
xún寻
kāi开
xīn心
le了
 ,
shuō说
zhèng正
jing经
de的
 。

Stop joking around, let's be serious.