打哈哈

打哈哈

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	the sound of someone laughing out loud; the sound of someone laughing out loud
simp. and trad. (打哈哈)		打	哈哈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎhāha, dǎhāhā

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄏㄚ ˙ㄏㄚ, ㄉㄚˇ ㄏㄚ ㄏㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² haa¹ haa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎhāha
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄏㄚ ˙ㄏㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎhahå
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-ha¹-ha⁵
    • Yale: dǎ-hā-ha
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daaha.ha
    • Palladius: дахаха (daxaxa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xä⁵⁵ xä²/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎhāhā
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄏㄚ ㄏㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎhaha
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-ha¹-ha¹
    • Yale: dǎ-hā-hā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daahaha
    • Palladius: дахаха (daxaxa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xä⁵⁵ xä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² haa¹ haa¹
    • Yale: dá hā hā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² haa¹ haa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² ha¹ ha¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ haː⁵⁵ haː⁵⁵/

Verb

打⫽哈哈 (verb-object)

1. to make a joke
2. to make fun; to kid around; to mess around

   你這次的任務一定要出色完成，可別給我打哈哈。 [MSC, trad.]
   你这次的任务一定要出色完成，可别给我打哈哈。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ zhè cì de rènwù yīdìng yào chūsè wánchéng, kě bié gěi wǒ dǎ hāha. [Pinyin]

   This job must be done well — don't mess around.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 開玩笑 (“to kid; to joke around”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		開玩笑
Mandarin	Beijing	開玩笑, 打哈哈
	Taiwan	開玩笑
	Tianjin	開哏
	Jinan	開玩笑, 打哈哈
	Xi'an	開玩笑
	Wuhan	科心, 科德行, 鬥散放
	Chengdu	涮罈子
	Liuzhou	講笑
	Yangzhou	開心
	Nanjing	尋開心
	Hefei	開心, 開玩笑
	Singapore	開玩笑
Cantonese	Guangzhou	講笑
	Hong Kong	講笑
	Dongguan	講笑
	Yangjiang	攪笑
	Singapore (Guangfu)	講笑
Gan	Nanchang	開玩笑
Hakka	Meixian	講笑
Huizhou	Jixi	講笑, 開玩笑
Jin	Taiyuan	耍笑, 開玩笑
Min Bei	Jian'ou	𡛴, 𡛴嬉
Min Dong	Fuzhou	講笑, 蠻笑, 做暢
Min Nan	Xiamen	滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Quanzhou	滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Zhangzhou	滾笑, 講笑, 𠢕滾, 戲謔, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	講摽笑
	Taipei (Wanhua)	滾笑
	Kaohsiung	耍笑
	Yilan	講笑詼
	Changhua (Lukang)	講笑
	Taichung	講笑
	Taichung (Wuqi)	講耍笑
	Tainan	滾笑, 滾耍笑, 講耍笑
	Taitung	講耍笑
	Hsinchu	講笑
	Penghu (Magong)	滾笑
	Penang (Hokkien)	𠢕滾, 講笑
	Singapore (Hokkien)	滾笑, 講笑, 講耍笑, 耍笑
	Manila (Hokkien)	摽, 摽笑, 滾笑, 講笑
	Chaozhou	呾耍笑
	Shantou	呾耍
	Shantou (Chenghai)	呾耍
	Singapore (Teochew)	呾耍笑, 呾耍, 呾笑
	Haikou	講笑
Wu	Shanghai	尋開心, 開玩笑, 打棚, 摟白相, 話白相, 講白相
	Shanghai (Chongming)	尋開心
	Suzhou	尋開心, 打棚, 摟白相, 捉弄, 弄白相, 講白相, 講張
	Hangzhou	尋開心
	Ningbo	尋開心
	Wenzhou	講笑, 講取笑
Xiang	Changsha	鬥霸, 鬥放子, 講笑
	Shuangfeng	鬥散放, 打豪