好
hǎohào HSK1

good

好 hǎo frequency
good adjective
good; fine; nice; satisfactory; (of people) close or on intimate terms

我们越快找到他越好。

wǒ​men yuè kuài zhǎo dào tā yuè hǎo.

The sooner we find him, the better.

爸爸，坏的意思是好。

bà​ba, huài de yì​si shì hǎo.

Dad, bad means good.

[finished] particle
used after a verb to show that an action is completed, finished, or done to satisfaction

穿好衣服跟我们走。

chuān hǎo yī​fu gēn wǒ​men zǒu.

Get dressed and come with us.

你考试没考好吗？

nǐ kǎo​shì méi kǎo hǎo ma?

Did you not do well on your exam?

all right adjectiveinterjection
all right; OK; used to express agreement, approval, or to signal the end of a conversation; sometimes used to express dissatisfaction or a warning

好吧，我请你喝一杯。

hǎo ba, wǒ qǐng nǐ hē yī bēi.

All right, I'll buy you a drink.

我们什么也没做，好吗？

wǒ​men shén​me yě méi zuò, hǎo ma?

We didn't do anything, alright?

very adverb
used before adjectives to emphasize degree; very; so; how

他们长大得好快。

tā​men zhǎng dà de hǎo kuài.

They grow up so fast.

明天的事让我好紧张。

míng​tiān de shì ràng wǒ hǎo jǐn​zhāng.

I'm so nervous about tomorrow.

quite a few adverbnumeral
used before quantity or time words to emphasize a large amount or long duration; a good many; quite a while

他来过好几次了。

tā lái guo hǎo jǐ cì le.

He's been here several times.

他们在那里坐了好几分钟。

tā​men zài nà​li zuò le hǎo jǐ fēn​zhōng.

They sat there for several minutes.

to get well adjectiveverb
to get well; to recover from illness; to be healthy; (of a situation) to improve or be fixed

你的女儿有好一点吗？

nǐ de nǚ'ér yǒu hǎo yī​diǎn ma?

Has your daughter gotten any better?

咖啡很快就好。

kā​fēi hěn kuài jiù hǎo.

Coffee will be ready soon.

good to adjective
good to; pleasant to; used before a verb to show that the action produces a pleasant effect or result

蛋白质棒没那么好闻。

dàn​bái​zhì bàng méi nà​me hǎo wén.

Protein bars don't smell that good.

easy to adjective
easy to; used before a verb to show that an action is easy to perform

我可没那么好骗。

wǒ kě méi nà​me hǎo piàn.

I'm not that easy to fool.

hello verbadjective
used after a personal pronoun to form a greeting

你们好，小家伙们。

nǐ​men hǎo, xiǎo​jiā​huo men.

Hello, little ones.

praise verbnoun
praise; words of greeting or good wishes
so as to particleadverb
so as to; in order to; so that one can; used to show that the preceding action makes a goal easier to achieve
may
(topolect) may; can; should; to be able to
好 hào
to be fond of verb
to be fond of; to like; to love; to have a hobby or preference for
to be liable to
to be liable to; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
surname
a Chinese surname
center hole
(archaic) the hole in the center of a jade disk (like a 璧 bì)

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Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
82nd most common 2128.5 per million
Movie subtitles
15th most common 8811.9 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9977.1 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
2205.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+597D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)