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  1. lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
  2. between laughter and tears

Characters

  • 啼 (啼): (bound form) to cry; to weep loudly; (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
  • 笑 (咲): old variant of 笑[xiao4]
  • 皆 (皆): all; each and every; in all cases
  • 非 (非): abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

Resources

Examples

我啼笑皆非。

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