gén
noun #52,540

Meanings

  1. 1 funny line; comic gag (in crosstalk)
  2. 2 funny; amusing

Examples

Zhè duàn xiàngsheng zhēn gén.
This crosstalk piece is really funny.

Tips

history
has almost no general modern use. It survives chiefly as a performing-arts term in 相声 (crosstalk), where a is a comic gag, and as a regional word for funny. A separate old reading made it a variant of / .
register
Northern and theatrical; outside crosstalk circles 好笑 or 有趣 is normal.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
is the mouth radical, fitting since the word is about spoken comedy and laughter.
phonetic
gèn
stubborn; one of the eight trigrams
supplies the sound, with the reading shifting from to .

Stroke Order

gén