好处

Character by character

• 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well
• 处chù5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 處place, locale; department

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 这对谁有好处？

  Zhè duì shéi yǒu hǎo chu

  Who benefits?

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 好处. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 好hǎoHSK 1

  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

• 处chùHSK 4

  place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point

• 处理chǔ lǐHSK 3

  to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices

• 好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2

  as if; to seem like

• 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3

  well; carefully; nicely; properly

• 美好měi hǎoHSK 3

  beautiful; fine

• 最好zuì hǎoHSK 1

  best; (you) had better (do what we suggest)

• 处于chǔ yúHSK 4

  to be in (some state, position, or condition)

• 好多hǎo duōHSK 2

  many; quite a lot; much better

• 好看hǎo kànHSK 1

  good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated

• 好运hǎo yùnHSK 5

  good luck

• 到处dào chùHSK 2

  everywhere

• 良好liáng hǎoHSK 4

  good; favorable; well; fine

• 正好zhèng hǎoHSK 2

  just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that

• 好吃hǎo chīHSK 1

  tasty; delicious

• 好事hǎo shìHSK 2

  good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

• 不好意思bù hǎo yì siHSK 2

  to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing; to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)

• 好久hǎo jiǔHSK 2

  quite a while

• 只好zhǐ hǎoHSK 3

  to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to

• 友好yǒu hǎoHSK 2

  friendly; amicable; close friend

• 好人hǎo rénHSK 2

  good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle

• 好奇hào qíHSK 3

  inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity

• 相处xiāng chǔHSK 4

  to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)

• 好友hǎo yǒuHSK 4

  close friend; pal; (social networking website) friend