# 笑 — Laugh

Frequency rank 207 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 項 (Paragraph), less common than 権 (Rights).

- On’yomi: しょう
- Kun’yomi: わら、え
- Radical: 竹 Bamboo (Kangxi 118)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

Two Bamboo poles punch up through the floorboards between the abbot's feet and hoist him head-first into the rafters, robe over his face, halfway to Heaven.

In words:

- 笑う わらう — to laugh,to smile
- 笑い わらい — laugh,laughter,smile
- 笑顔 えがお — smiling face

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