好歹

good and bad / most unfortunate occurrence / in any case / whatever

Characters and words in 好歹

hǎo = h + ao3

good / well / 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 = 女 + 子 : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.

好

hào = h + ao4

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

好

hǎo = h + ao3

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

好

hào = h + ao4

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

歹

dǎi = d + ai3

bad / wicked / evil / Kangxi radical 78

歹 = 一 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a wicked witch.

Don Quixote (d) is hypnotized by a wicked witch (歹) playing her flute (一) in the airplane (ai3). She's playing her magic flute in order to sedate Don Quixote, so that her bats (夕) can drink his blood.