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
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hào = h + ao4
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
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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
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hào = h + ao4
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
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How to pronounce 好

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= h initial

H is for Hamlet.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ ao3 final

In the aorta’s living room.

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= h initial

H is for Hamlet.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ ao4 final

In the aorta’s bathroom.

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好 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
female / woman / daughter
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= ru + Ø3
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]
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= z + Ø3
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-
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(noun suffix)
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Characters with 好 as component

nāo = n + ao1
(dialect) no good / (contraction of 不 and 好) / see 孬種|孬种[nao1 zhong3]
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nāo = n + ao1
(dialect) no good (contraction of 不[bu4] + 好[hao3])
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hào = h + ao4
to desire
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Words with 好

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as if / to seem like
well / carefully / nicely / properly
to feel embarrassed / to find it embarrassing / to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)

Sentences with 好

zěn
me
néng
jiāo
men
hǎo
hǎo
cāo
liàn
ne

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hǎo / hào

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