Chinese symbol for “comical”
滑稽
huá jī
comical; funny; amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]); huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
The closest CC-CEDICT match for comical is 滑稽 (huá jī), defined as: comical; funny; amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]); huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “comical”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滑稽.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 下滑 | xià huá | to slide down (a slope etc); (fig.) to decline |
| 滑雪 | huá xuě | to ski; skiing |
| 光滑 | guāng huá | smooth |
| 滑动 (滑動) | huá dòng | to slide; sliding movement |
| 滑坡 | huá pō | rockslide; landslip |
| 稽查 | jī chá | inspection |
| 稽核 | jī hé | to audit; to verify |
| 无稽之谈 (無稽之談) | wú jī zhī tán | (idiom) complete nonsense |
See also: Japanese symbol for “comical”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.