啼笑皆非 in English ti2 xiao4 jie1 fei1 Meaning

Meanings

  • literally (word for word) not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiomatic expression)
  • between laughter and tears

Simplified Characters

啼 笑 皆 非

Traditional Characters

啼 笑 皆 非

Pinyin

ti2 xiao4 jie1 fei1

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

啼ti2to cry 笑xiao4old variant of 笑[xiao4] 皆jie1all 非fei1abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa