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Mythic Mandarin

好像 (hǎo xiàng): meaning and stroke order

好像 (hǎo xiàng) means as if, to seem like.

好像

Simplified
好像
Traditional
好像 (same form)
Pinyin
hǎo xiàng

Stroke order of 好像

好

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

Stroke by stroke

像

  • xiàng to resemble; to be like
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 好像

  1. hǎo xiàng
    • as if
    • to seem like

Radicals of the characters

好
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 子 on the right
像
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 13 strokes · 亻 on the left, 象 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.

好像 in our stories

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  • 那一刻,蒋悦觉得心里暖暖的,好像这个城市终于记住了她。

    nà yí kè Jiǎng Yuè juéde xīnli nuǎnnuǎn de hǎoxiàng zhè gè chéngshì zhōngyú jìzhù le tā

    At that moment Jiang Yue felt warm inside, as if the city had finally remembered her.

    From the story No chilli, please HSK 4

  • 书里的花也不一样,好像是从不同的地方摘来的。

    shū lǐ de huā yě bù yíyàng hǎoxiàng shì cóng bùtóng de dìfang zhāi lái de

    The flowers were all different too, as if picked in different places.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

  • 第一天吃饭,奶奶一直低着头,只跟于航说话,好像桌子边没有苏菲这个人。

    dì-yī tiān chīfàn nǎinai yìzhí dī zhe tóu zhǐ gēn Yú Háng shuōhuà hǎoxiàng zhuōzi biān méiyǒu Sūfēi zhè gè rén

    At the first meal Grandma kept her head down and spoke only to Yu Hang, as if Sophie weren't at the table at all.

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 好像

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).