Meaning

Primary

Comedy

Alternatives

Joke, Funny Story

Word Type

noun

Explanation

You know that 笑う is "to laugh." This is a noun version of that, though it's not "a laugh," (that's 笑い). Add to that and you have the thing that makes you laugh. It's comedy. It's the joke that's elevated with because it made you laugh SOOOOO much. Haha!

Reading

おわらい
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The reading is the same 笑う or 笑い. It's also the same as what you learned with the kanji.

Context

Context Sentences

マイケルがトーフグに入る時に間ちがえてメイン州のポートランドに引っこしてしまったことは、今でもみんなのお笑い草です。

When Michael got a job at Tofugu, he moved to Portland, Maine by mistake. It's still a funny story we laugh about to this day.

コウイチは毎日、マイケルからお笑いの特くんを受けています。

Koichi gets intensive comedy training from Michael every day.

夢の中で、私はお笑い芸人で、テレビでお客さんの前でオナラをしなくちゃいけなかったんだけど、うまくできなかったの。それで、その番組の司会を務めてた先輩芸人にすごく怒られたのよね。

In my dream, I was a comedian and I had to fart on purpose in front of the TV audience, but I couldn’t do it. Then I was scolded by the experienced comedians who hosted the show.

Kanji Composition