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Mythic Mandarin

好事 (hǎo shì): meaning and stroke order

好事 (hǎo shì) means good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"), charity.

好事

Simplified
好事
Traditional
好事 (same form)
Pinyin
hǎo shì · hào shì

Stroke order of 好事

好

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

Stroke by stroke

事

  • shì matter; thing
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 好事

  1. hǎo shì
    • 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
  2. hào shì
    • to be meddlesome

Radicals of the characters

好
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 子 on the right
事
Radical 亅 (Kangxi radical 6) · 8 strokes

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.

好事 in our stories

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  • “今天他要回天上，向玉皇大帝报告我们家这一年做了什么好事、什么坏事。”

    jīntiān tā yào huí tiān shàng xiàng Yùhuáng Dàdì bàogào wǒmen jiā zhè yì nián zuò le shénme hǎoshì shénme huàishì

    "Today he goes back up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on all the good and bad things our family has done this year."

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

  • 舅舅听了他的故事，讲起了一个古老的故事：边塞有个老人丢了一匹马，邻居都来安慰他，他却说：“谁知道这不是好事呢？”

    jiùjiu tīng le tā de gùshi jiǎng qǐ le yí gè gǔlǎo de gùshi biānsài yǒu gè lǎorén diū le yì pǐ mǎ línjū dōu lái ānwèi tā tā què shuō shéi zhīdao zhè bú shì hǎoshì ne

    Hearing his story, his uncle told an ancient one: an old man on the frontier lost a horse, and when the neighbours came to console him he said, "Who knows that this isn't a blessing?"

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

Stories using 好事

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).