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
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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
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Meaning of 好像
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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
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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
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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
- No chilli, please HSK 4
- Flowers in the book return HSK 5
- An old bracelet HSK 6
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).