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laugh

📅 Updated:2025-03-17
🕒 Created:2015-08-09
🆔 ID:8426

Description

This tag is used when a character is shown to be laughing, either by vocalized text (Hahaha, etc) or through use of expressions and gestures.

Categories

Forms of laughter
  • giggling - Higher pitched noises, tends to represented by "He", rather than "Ha", but could also be tagged based on stereotypes.
  • snickering - Laughter that tends to last a few seconds, and commonly as a form of ridicule. A character may try to hide the fact that they are snickering.
Laughter examples
Commonly take the form of a two letter vocalization: "Ha ha", "He he", "Hi hi" , "Oh ho ho", "Tee hee hee", but can take many other forms. Some languages have their own ways of depicting laughter.

Sound effects

  • "Cackle"
  • "Giggle"
  • "Laugh"
  • "Snerk"
  • "Snicker"
  • "Wheeze" - Conditionally

Japanese

If `ハハ` is present in an image, it is most likely a laughing form of some sort. It is also common to use the letter `w` to indicate laughter. It is the Japanese representation of "LOL" (Laughing Out Loud).
  • "Fufufu" or "Fu fu"
  • "アハハ"
  • "あはは"

Korean

Russian

  • "Xa xa"

Spanish

  • "Je je"

Related themes

Related tags

Speech interruption themes
Tickling subset
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