好事
hǎo shì 3–4
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
- Characters
- 2
- 好 · 事
- Syllables
- 2
- hǎo shì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,679
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well
- 事shì8 strokesHSK 1affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 好事. 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
- 事shìHSK 1
matter; thing; item; work; affair
- 事情shì qingHSK 2
affair; matter; thing; business
- 好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2
as if; to seem like
- 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3
well; carefully; nicely; properly
- 故事gù shìHSK 2
old practice
- 事件shì jiànHSK 3
event; happening; incident
- 事实shì shíHSK 3
fact
- 事业shì yèHSK 3
undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation
- 事故shì gùHSK 3
accident
- 美好měi hǎoHSK 3
beautiful; fine
- 事实上shì shí shàngHSK 3
in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- 最好zuì hǎoHSK 1
best; (you) had better (do what we suggest)
- 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
- 良好liáng hǎoHSK 4
good; favorable; well; fine
- 同事tóng shìHSK 2
colleague; co-worker
- 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
- 好处hǎo chuHSK 2
benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hǎo chù]
- 军事jūn shìHSK 6
military affairs; (attributive) military
- 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