IDENTITY
好hǎogood; well; to like (hào)
HSK 1Top 21
CORE MEANING
good; well; to like (hào)
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.good; fineHSK1
- 2.to like; to be fond ofHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 女woman radical (nǚ)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰女子
- woman; mother
- child; mother and child together = good
USAGE
Common words
你好nǐ hǎohello
好吃hǎochīdelicious
好看hǎokàngood-looking
爱好àihàohobby
Graded examples
你好！Nǐ hǎo!HSK1
Hello!
你做的菜真好吃。Nǐ zuò de cài zhēn hǎochī.HSK2
The food you made is delicious.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 妈
- 如
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mother (女) with her child (子) — the old picture of "good".
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #21
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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