好
好 in English
- 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
- to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
- 本 běn (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current... attested in use
- 份 fèn classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分[fen4] attested in use
- 句 jù sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse attested in use
- 家 jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested in use
- 张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“你太好了。”Willie回答道。
"That's very nice of you," Willie answered.
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“你怎么样？”“我很好，谢谢。”
"How are you?" "I am fine, thank you."
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“好人不长命”是句或真或假的老话。
"The good die young" is an old saying which may or may not be true.
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“洞里发生了什么？我很好奇。”“我一点也不知道。”
"What's going on in the cave? I'm curious." "I have no idea."