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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *好* | 好* | *好
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *好* | 好* | *好
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
HSK 4
pleasant to hear
HSK 1
benefit; advantage; merit / gain; profit / also pr. [hao3chu4]
HSK 2
good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
HSK 2
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
HSK 2
well; carefully; nicely; properly
HSK 3
quite a while
HSK 2
eager to study / studious / erudite
HSK 6
tasty; delicious
HSK 1
as if / to seem like
HSK 2
good-looking; nice-looking / (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good / in an embarrassing situation
HSK 1
close friend / pal / (social networking website) friend / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
good luck
HSK 5
inquisitive / curious / inquisitiveness / curiosity
HSK 3
many / quite a lot / much better
HSK 2
to be just like; can be compared to
HSK 7-9
laughable; funny; ridiculous
HSK 7-9
interest in sth / curiosity / inquisitive
HSK 7-9
to seem / to be like
HSK 6
(idiomatic usage) with great difficulty / to have a hard time (convincing sb, relinquishing sth etc) / (literal usage) so easy
HSK 6
good or bad / good and bad / standard; quality / (coll.) very bad
HSK 7-9
easy to learn
kindhearted person / good Samaritan
HSK 7-9
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
to improve / to take a turn for the better / improvement
HSK 6
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
kindness / good intentions
HSK 7-9
good opinion / favorable impression
HSK 7-9
good and bad / most unfortunate occurrence / in any case / whatever
HSK 7-9
luckily / fortunately
HSK 7-9
daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it (idiom) / a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions / the buck stops here
erhua variant of 好玩
HSK 1
(coll.) good mood (usu. used in the negative) / angry (usu. used in combination with 好笑)
several years
good friend / (slang) a visit from Aunt Flo (menstrual period)
good intention / kindness
HSK 7-9
to want sex / given to lust / lecherous / lascivious / horny
active / restless / energetic
to have the nerve / what a cheek! / to feel no shame / to overcome the shame / (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
easy to get along with
easy to use / to function well / so that / in order to
(coll.) all right? / OK?
easy to remember
useful / serviceable / effective / handy / easy to use
lit. likes and dislikes / preferences / taste
friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
Hollywood / also pr. [Hao3lai2wu1]
eager to be first
sincere, well-meant, kind words
to be meddlesome
(idiom) a good person, used to praise sb's moral integrity or courage
easy to deal with; not a problem / (polite answer) you flatter me
HSK 7-9
hospitality / to treat guests well / to enjoy having guests / hospitable / friendly
HSK 7-9
kind words
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
favorable criticism / positive evaluation
HSK 7-9
several / quite a few
hero / strong and courageous person / CL: 條|条
to have an easy time / (feel) well
(idiom) to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
Mr Goody-goody / yes-man (sb who agrees with anything)
admirable people and exemplary deeds
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
to have a close call / to have a narrow escape
happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give
(Tw) benefit; advantage (from Taiwanese 好空, Tai-lo pr. [hó-khang])
auspicious day / good day / happy life
easy to do; easy to manage
the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom)
the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten / the good things in life are worth waiting for
to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous
aerobic
to be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom)
(dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
excellent (interjection)
Trust-Mart (supermarket chain)
(Tw) Costco (warehouse club chain)
lecher / womanizer / dirty old man
to like to lecture others (idiom)
good-looking (Cantonese)
with great difficulty / very difficult
long time no see
accommodating / easy to push around
to have a taste for the exotic (idiom)
better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind
good luck charm
eager to win / competitive / aggressive
a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom)
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
the best part of the show is yet to come / (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come / you ain't seen nothin' yet
fine goods
perfectly all right / without rhyme or reason
lucky / blessed with good fortune
The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)
amusing / fun / interesting
to be playful / to be fond of one's fun

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