呵呵かか

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (呵呵かか)		呵しか	呵しか
alternative forms		ㄏㄏ slang

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵しか (MC xa) > 呵しか (hē).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hēhē

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho¹ ho¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hēhē
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜ ㄏㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hehe
    • Wade–Giles: ho¹-ho¹
    • Yale: hē-hē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hehe
    • Palladius: хэхэ (xɛxɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵⁵ xɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho¹ ho¹
    • Yale: hō hō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho¹ ho¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho¹ ho¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xa xa

Rime
Character	呵しか
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲こえ)	曉あかつき (32)
Final (韻いん)	歌うた (94)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I
Fanqie	虎とら何なに切きり
Baxter	xa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ha/
Li Rong	/xɑ/
Wang Li	/xɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hē
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho1

Interjection

呵呵かか

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of laughter

   • 近ちか作さく小しょう詞し，雖無む柳やなぎ七なな郎ろう風味ふうみ，亦また自じ是これ一いち家いえ。呵呵かか！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     近ちか作さく小しょう词，虽无柳やなぎ七なな郎ろう风味，亦また自じ是これ一いち家いえ。呵呵かか！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. late 11th century, Su Shi (蘇そ軾), Letter to Xianyu Zijun (《與あずか鮮于子こ駿しゅん》)

     Jìn zuò xiǎocí, suīwú Liǔ Qīláng fēngwèi, yì zìshì yījiā. Hēhē! [Pinyin]

     Recently I wrote some little ci poems. Though hardly comparable to Mister Liu's style, they're in my own character. Haha!

2. (onomatopoeia, ironic) sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter

   呵呵かか，你不ふ行くだり。  ―  Hēhē, nǐ bùxíng.  ―  Heh, you aren't up to it.

Derived terms

• 呵呵かか噠／呵呵かか哒 (hēhēdā)
• 呵呵かか大だい笑わらい (hēhē dàxiào)
• 樂らく呵呵かか／乐呵呵かか
• 笑わらい呵呵かか (xiàohēhē)

 

Suffix

呵呵かか

1. an expressive suffix for adjectives

Derived terms

• 傻呵呵かか (shǎhēhē)
• 冷ひや呵呵かか
• 怔呵呵かか
• 樂らく呵呵かか／乐呵呵かか
• 胖ゆたか呵呵かか

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
呵しか	呵しか
か Hyōgaiji	か Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
呵々かか

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 呵呵かか (MC xa xa).

First cited to a text from roughly 900 CE.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) か​か [káꜜkà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ka̠]

Adverb

呵しか(か)呵しか(か) • (kaka) 

1. (literary) laughingly

   Synonyms: あはは (ahaha), からから (karakara)

Derived terms

• 呵しか(か)呵しか(か)然しか(ぜん) (kakazen, “laughing”, adjective)
• 呵しか(か)呵しか(か)大だい(たい)笑わらい(しょう) (kaka taishō, “a belly laugh, a guffaw”, noun)