Keyword
good
- excellent
- fine
- proper
- suitable
- well
- Frequency
- #44
- Strokes
- 6
Readings
hǎo90%
hào10%
Mnemonic
A woman 女 with a son 子
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
好
good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a form of address) hello
最好
best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
好像
as if; to seem like
不好
no good
好好
in perfectly good condition; perfectly all right; well; thoroughly; carefully; properly
良好
good; favorable; well; fine
好看
good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situation
美好
beautiful; fine
你好
hello; hi
好处
benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. hào3chu
好多
many; quite a lot; much better
还好
not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
好事
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
好友
close friend; pal; (social networking website) friend
好吃
tasty; delicious
正好
just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
友好
friendly; amicable; close friend
只好
to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
好奇
inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity
好人
good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
刚好
just; exactly; to happen to be
好评
favorable criticism; positive evaluation
也好
that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
好不好
(coll.) all right?; OK?