| 537 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 900 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 889 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3374 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1147 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 791 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1209 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1235 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1299 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 251 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1472 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3275 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1692 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2300 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 947 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 25885 | Morohashi |
| 2646 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4256 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 938 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1008 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 482 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 548 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
913 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 笑気 【ショウキ】 laughing gas, nitrous oxide
- 笑気麻酔 【ショウキマスイ】 nitrous oxide anesthesia, laughing gas anesthesia
- 苦笑 【クショウ】 bitter smile, wry smile, strained laugh, sarcastic laugh
- 冷笑 【レイショウ】 sneer, derision, scornful laugh, cold smile
Kun reading compounds
- 笑う 【わらう】 to laugh, to smile, to sneer, to ridicule, to be dumbfounded, to be flabbergasted
- 笑う門には福来る 【わらうかどにはふくきたる】 laugh and grow fat, good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
- 笑む 【えむ】 to smile
Readings
- Japanese names:
- えみ
- Korean:
- so
Spanish
- risa
- sonrisa
- reír
- sonreír
Portuguese
- risada
French
- rire
| 2363 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6f4.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 8843.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-30-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7b11 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
Kun reading compounds
- 鴎 【かもめ】 common gull (Larus canus), mew gull, gull (Laridae spp.), seagull
- 鴎髱 【かもめづと】 chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)
- 笑い鴎 【わらいかもめ】 laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
- 盗賊鴎 【とうぞくかもめ】 skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, incl. the jaegers), pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua
Readings
- Korean:
- gu
Spanish
- gaviota
Portuguese
French
| 5367 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 2975 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 47268X | Morohashi |
| 6941 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2828 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2843 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 11b11.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-11 | SKIP code |
| 7772.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-18-10 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9d0e | Unicode hex code |