好
hǎoTraditional: 好
HSK 1
#11 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
good, well, OK
Stroke order
好
Examples
！
Hello!
。
The weather is very good today.
，。
OK, let's go.
。
This book is very well written.
，。
OK, I'll come right away.
好 (hǎo) means good or well and is the core of the standard greeting 你好.
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Appears in 10 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 好.
你好nǐ hǎohello, how are you最好zuì hǎobest, had better, it would be best好像hǎo xiàngit seems like, apparently, as if好好hǎo hǎoproperly, carefully, well (reduplicated for emphasis)还好hái hǎonot bad, pretty good; fortunately不好bù hǎonot good, bad, poor太好了tài hǎo legreat, wonderful, excellent (exclamation)不好意思bù hǎo yì siexcuse me, sorry (mild); to feel embarrassed更好gèng hǎobetter, even better早上好zǎo shàng hǎogood morning
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- Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
- Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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