爱好

Character by character

• 爱ài10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 愛love, be fond of, like
• 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 爱好. 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

• 爱àiHSK 1

  to love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen)

• 好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2

  as if; to seem like

• 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3

  well; carefully; nicely; properly

• 可爱kě àiHSK 2

  adorable; cute; lovely

• 爱情ài qíngHSK 2

  romance; love (romantic)

• 亲爱qīn àiHSK 4

  dear; beloved; darling

• 美好měi hǎoHSK 3

  beautiful; fine

• 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

• 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

• 恋爱liàn àiHSK 5

  (romantic) love; in love; to have an affair

• 好处hǎo chuHSK 2

  benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hǎo chù]

• 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