(hǎo) - good, well, OK in Mandarin

hǎo

Traditional: 好

HSK 1

#11 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

good, well, OK

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Word origin

An associative compound of 女 (nv) 'woman' beside 子 (zi) 'child'. A woman with her child is traditionally read as a picture of something 'good'.

Origin: ideograph
Root: 女 (nv, 'woman') + 子 (zi, 'child')

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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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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 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 好多hǎo duōa lot of, many, much 好吃hǎo chītasty, delicious 好了吗hǎo le mais it ready? are you done?好人hǎo réngood person, good people 美好měi hǎobeautiful, fine, wonderful 做好zuò hǎoto do well, to get ready, to finish doing 好看hǎo kàngood-looking, attractive, nice to watch 好不好hǎo bu hǎois that all right, how about it 好极了hǎo jí lewonderful, terrific, great 正好zhèng hǎojust right, exactly, as it happens 好事hǎo shìgood thing, good deed, happy event 好玩hǎo wánfun, amusing, enjoyable 好处hǎo chùbenefit, advantage, good points 好消息hǎo xiāo xīgood news 好笑hǎo xiàofunny, amusing, laughable 您好nín hǎohello (polite), how do you do 好运hǎo yùngood luck, good fortune

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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 2: First words for sentences.