好 (hǎo): meaning and stroke order
好 (hǎo) means good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to.
好
- Simplified
- 好
- Traditional
- 好 (same form)
- Pinyin
- hǎo · hào
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Stroke order of 好
好
- hǎo good; appropriate; proper
- hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 好
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hǎo
- 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 personal pronoun) hello
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hào
- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
Radical and structure
- 好
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 子 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 好
- 和好 hé hǎo to become reconciled; on good terms with each other
- 好事 hǎo shì good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity
- 好学 hǎo xué easy to learn
- 好心 hǎo xīn kindness; good intentions
- 正好 zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right
- 说好 shuō hǎo to come to an agreement; to complete negotiations
- 好话 hǎo huà friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf
- 爱好 ài hào to like; to be fond of; to take pleasure in; to be keen on; interest; hobby
- 好吃 hǎo chī tasty; delicious
- 好在 hǎo zài luckily; fortunately
- 好奇 hào qí inquisitive; curious
- 好看 hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good
好 in our stories
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“好，我吃面条。”
hǎo wǒ chī miàntiáo
"OK, I'll have noodles."
From the story At the restaurant HSK 1
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周亮想了想，说：“好吧。”
Zhōu Liàng xiǎng le xiǎng shuō hǎo ba
Zhou Liang thought for a moment and said, "OK."
From the story Next Friday HSK 2
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现在，她上楼一点儿也不累，睡觉也睡得很好。
xiànzài tā shàng lóu yìdiǎnr yě bú lèi shuìjiào yě shuì de hěn hǎo
Now she isn't tired at all on the stairs, and she sleeps well too.
From the story A little more every day HSK 2
Where you learn it
好 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 好
- At the restaurant HSK 1
- Next Friday HSK 2
- A little more every day HSK 2
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- Making dumplings HSK 2
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).