Five Chinese Jokes You Should Know

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Learning Chinese language, how can you not know some interesting Chinese jokes? You know, having a conversation filled with humor can enable us to integrate into a strange country better. You can not only learn some words or sentences, but also can feel a lot of fun from it.

Now, let's learn some funny Chinese Jokes

1. Chinese Joke about "Right"

Yí Wèi Zài Měi Guó De Liú Xué Shenɡ ， Xiǎnɡ Yào Kǎo Jià Zhào 。
一位在美国的留学生，想要考驾照。

A student from the United States has a driving license test.

Zài Kǎo Lù Shì Shí ，Kàn Dào Dì Shànɡ Shì Xiànɡ Zuǒ 。
在考路试时，看到地上是向左。

When the road test begins, he can see the word on the ground is "left".

Tā Bú Fànɡ Xīn De Wèn Dào: 「 Turn Left ？」
他不放心的问道: 「 Turn Left ？」

Chinese Joke

He asked very anxiously: "Turn left?"

Kǎo Guān Huí Dá Shuō: 「 Right ! 」
考官回答说: 「 Right ! 」

The examiner replied: "right!"

Yú Shì Tā Lì Kè Xiànɡ Yòu 。
于是他立刻向右。

Then he immediately turned right.

Suǒ Yǐ, Hěn Bào Qiàn, Tā Zhī Yǒu Xià Cì Zài Lái 。
所以，很抱歉, 他只有下次再来。

So sorry, he had to come back next time for the test.

This is a joke about English for Chinese people. Because in China, the direction "right" is "yòu", then if you want to say something or somebody is right, we can say "duì" or "shì de". It is not like English we can use "right" for the direction and the opinion about something.)

2. Chinese Joke about Alphabet Letters

Wèn ： 26 Gè Zì Mǔ Qù Diào "E" Hé "T" Hái Shènɡ Jǐ Gè Zì Mǔ ？
问： 26 个字母去掉 E 和 T 还剩几个字母？

Q: If the 26 letters remove "e" and "t", then they leave how many letters?

Chinese jokes about letters

Dá ： 24 Gè !
答： 24 个!

A: 24 then.

Wèn: Cuò!
问: 错!

Q: Wrong! ! !

Dá: Wèi Shén Me？
答：为什么？

A: Why?

Wèn : 21 Gè ，Yīn Wèi "ET" Shì Zuò "UFO" Zǒu De。
问： 21 个，因为 ET 是坐 UFO 走的。

Q: 21, because ET will leave with UFO.

3. Chinese Joke about 熟shú

Chinese joke about 熟

Wèn ：Yí Gè Qī Fēn Shú De Niú Pái Hé Yí Gè Wǔ Fēn Shú De Niú pái Xiānɡ Yù Le。
问：一个七分熟的牛排和一个五分熟的牛排相遇了。

Kě Tā Men Què Méi Yǒu Dǎ Zhāo Hu ，Wèi Shén Me ？
可它们却没有打招呼，为什么？

Q: A steak medium and a steak cooked medium well meet in the street, but they did not say hello to each other, why?

Dá ：Wǒ Bù Zhī Dào，Wèi Shén Me ？
答：我不知道，为什么？

A: I don't know, why?

Dá ： Yīn Wèi Dōu Bù Shú！
答：因为都不熟！

Q: Because they are both not familiar with each other.

("shú" in Chinese, we can use to indicate the food is cooked well , and it also can be used to indicate the relationship among people: it means "familiar". For example, if we want say: "I am familiar with him", we can say in Chinese like: "我和他很熟wǒ hé tā hěn shú". And you can say: "roù yǐ jīng shú le" which means "the meat is already cooked" )

4. Chinese Joke about 公路Gōnɡ Lù

Yǒu Yì Zhī Gōnɡ Lù Zài Lù Shɑnɡ Zǒu ，Tā Yuè Zǒu Yuè Kuài , Yuè Zǒu Yuè Kuài。

有一只公鹿在路上走，它越走越快，越走越快。

Zuì Hòu Tā Biàn Chénɡ Le Gāo Sù Gōnɡ Lù。

最后它变成了高速公路。

A buck is walking on the road. It is getting faster and faster, getting faster and faster, and finally it turned into a freeway

(In Chinese, "buck" we call "公鹿gōng lù", and we call "freeway": gāo sù gōng lù 高速公路. So you can see both of them are "gōng lù", "gāo sù" means high speed. That's the reason of the joke.)