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正好 (zhèng hǎo): meaning and stroke order

正好 (zhèng hǎo) means just (in time), just right, just enough, to happen to, to chance to, by chance.

正好

Simplified
正好
Traditional
正好 (same form)
Pinyin
zhèng hǎo

Stroke order of 正好

正

  • zhēng first month of the lunar year
  • zhèng straight; upright
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

好

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 正好

  1. zhèng hǎo
    • just (in time)
    • just right
    • just enough
    • to happen to
    • to chance to
    • by chance
    • it just so happens that

Radicals of the characters

正
Radical 止 (Kangxi radical 77) · 5 strokes · 一 on top, 止 below
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.

正好 in our stories

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  • 没想到何芳高兴地说：“太好了！我也打鼓，正好可以找个朋友一起练！”

    méi xiǎngdào Hé Fāng gāoxìng de shuō tài hǎo le wǒ yě dǎ gǔ zhènghǎo kěyǐ zhǎo gè péngyou yìqǐ liàn

    To the landlord's surprise, He Fang says happily, "Great! I play the drums too. Now I'll have someone to practise with!"

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 乐广听说后，回到那天喝酒的地方，抬头一看，墙上挂着一张弓，弓上画着蛇的花纹，影子正好映在酒杯里。

    Yuè Guǎng tīngshuō hòu huídào nà tiān hē jiǔ de dìfang tái tóu yí kàn qiáng shàng guà zhe yì zhāng gōng gōng shàng huà zhe shé de huāwén yǐngzi zhènghǎo yìng zài jiǔbēi lǐ

    When Yue Guang heard, he went back to where they had been drinking and looked up: on the wall hung a bow painted with a snake pattern, and its reflection fell right into the wine cup.

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 哪吒把金圈一扔，正好打在夜叉头上，夜叉当场就死了。

    Nézhā bǎ jīn quān yì rēng zhènghǎo dǎ zài yèchā tóu shàng yèchā dāngchǎng jiù sǐ le

    Nezha threw the gold ring; it struck the yaksha squarely on the head and killed it on the spot.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 正好

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).