破涕为笑 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 破涕為笑 pòtìwéixiào ㄆㄛˋ ㄊㄧˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄒㄧㄠˋ to turn tears into laughter (idiom) to turn grief into happiness Character by character 破(pò)broken 涕(tì)tears 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 笑(xiào)laugh A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0