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Mythic Mandarin

好话 (hǎo huà): meaning and stroke order

好话 (hǎo huà) means friendly advice, words spoken on sb's behalf, a good word, kind words.

好话

Simplified
好话
Traditional
好話
Pinyin
hǎo huà

Stroke order of 好话

好

  • hǎo good; appropriate; proper
  • hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

话

  • huà dialect; language
  • huà old variant of 話|话[hua4]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 話

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 好话

  1. hǎo huà Traditional 好話
    • friendly advice
    • words spoken on sb's behalf
    • a good word
    • kind words
    • words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions

Radicals of the characters

好
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 子 on the right
话
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 讠 on the left, 舌 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.

好话 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • “糖瓜又甜又黏，他吃了以后，嘴就甜了，只会说好话。”

    tángguā yòu tián yòu nián tā chī le yǐhòu zuǐ jiù tián le zhǐ huì shuō hǎohuà

    "The sweets are sweet and sticky: once he's eaten them, his mouth is sweet and he can only say nice things."

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

Stories using 好话

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).