<entry id="2218911" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2628140</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>笑える</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>嗤える</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>わらえる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>to laugh</gloss>
<gloss>to break into laughter</gloss>
<gloss>to be made to laugh</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>to be funny</gloss>
<gloss>to be laughable</gloss>
<gloss>to make one laugh</gloss>
<gloss>to make one smile</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-04-27 17:05:46" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>GG5</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-04-27 20:05:50" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>both vt and vi.  i find the x-ref unnecessary/confusing</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>meikyo</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,2 +12,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vi;&lt;/pos&gt;
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="1229850"&gt;泣ける&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-05-30 08:55:33" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Noa</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Is this right?
笑える話 is a funny story, amusing story, a story that makes one laugh.

Would it be better if it read "to make one laugh"?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Eijirou</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-06-01 00:45:10" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Fair enough.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to be made to laugh&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to make one smile&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be laughable&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-09-08 20:58:36" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>According to the definition, the subject is the person who's laughing, not the thing that makes you laugh, but you also have usage like "あの大げさな名前が笑えるよね".
It might be clearer to have two senses.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr: "ひとりでに笑えてくる。自然に笑った状態になる。おかしくて笑わずにいられない。「しぐさを見ているだけで―・えてくる」"</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12,11 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vi;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to laugh&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to break into laughter&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be made to laugh&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;v1;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vi;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be funny&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to be laughable&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to make one laugh&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -13 +23,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to be laughable&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-09-08 21:47:30" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-12 20:17:05" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 笑える　 │ 2,018,703 │ 99.4% │
│ 嗤える　 │     1,070 │  0.1% │ - adding (only meikyo)
│ わらえる │    11,612 │  0.6% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;嗤える&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-13 11:25:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>