好

good, well

No. 62 most used · 0.91% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 109.

Also read: hào 爱好

How it's built

• 女woman
• 子child

A way to remember it

A woman (女) with her child (子): good.

Words

• 你好

  nǐ hǎo

  hello; hi
• 最好

  zuì hǎo

  best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
• 好像

  hǎo xiàng

  as if; to seem like
• 好好

  hǎo hǎo

  in perfectly good condition; perfectly all right; well; thoroughly; carefully; properly
• 还好

  hái hǎo

  not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
• 不好

  bù hǎo

  no good

Sentences

• 不要说话，好不好？

  bú yào shuō huà hǎo bu hǎo

  Quit talking, will you?
• 今天是美好的一天。

  jīn tiān shì měi hǎo de yì tiān

  Today is a beautiful day.
• 他不知道说什么好。

  tā bù zhī dào shuō shén me hǎo

  He did not know what to say.
• 他想到一个好主意。

  tā xiǎng dào yí ge hǎo zhǔ yi

  A good idea occurred to him.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.