- חחח/ההה: Hebrew version of LOL. The letter ח is pronounced ‘kh’ and ה is pronounced ‘h’. Putting them together (usually three or more in a row) makes the word khakhakha or hahaha (since vowels in Hebrew are generally not written), which is in many languages regarded as the sound of laughter.
- 555: The Thai variation of LOL. “5” in Thai is pronounced “ha”, three of them being “hahaha”.
- asg: Swedish abbreviation of the term Asgarv, meaning intense laughter.
- g: Danish abbreviation of the word griner, which means “laughing” in Danish.
- rs: in Brazil ”rs” (being an abbreviation of “risos”, the plural of “laugh”) is often used in text based communications in situations where in English lol would be used, repeating it (“rsrsrsrsrs”) is often done to express longer laughter or laughing harder. Also popular is “kkk” (which can also be repeated indefinitely), due to the pronunciation of the letter k in Portuguese sounding similar to the ca in card, and therefore representing the laugh “cacacacaca” (also similar to the Hebrew version above).
- mkm: in Afghanistan ”mkm” (being an abbreviation of the phrase “ma khanda mikonom”). This is a Dari phrase that means “I am laughing”.
- In Chinese, although 大笑 (da xiao; “big laugh”) is used, a more widespread usage is “哈哈哈” (ha ha ha) on internet forums.
- هاها: The Arabic هـــا makes the sound “ha,” and is strung together to create the sound “haha”.
- In some languages with a non-Latin script, the abbreviation “LOL” itself is also often transliterated. See for example Arabic لــول and Russian лол.
- In Japanese, traditionally the kanji for laugh in parenthesis was used in the same way as lol; （笑) It can be read as wara so just w has taken over as the abbreviation.
in korean, you can use ㅋㅋㅋ (kkk) or ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh).
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