Chinese Character Wiki
好

hǎo, hào

good

It is good (好) for a woman (女) and her child (子) to be together.

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

子 meaning component

子  Meaning component

zi, zǐ

  

child

Evolution

好 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
好 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
好 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
好 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
好 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

好  

hǎo

good, excellent, fine; well; good; proper; good to; easy to; very; so; (suffix indicating completion or readiness); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello

好  

hào

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

Most common words with 好
Freq.
Word
Meaning

好

good

好像

as if

好好

well

最好

best

良好

good

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

孬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤuʔ

xawX

hǎo

good

*qʰˤuʔ-s

xawH

hào

love, like (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9840% of movies

15th most common character in movies

82nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+597D

Shuowen

“好，美也。从女、子。”


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