Chinese Character 好 Meanings and components.

Form

好

Meaning

好 meaning^[3] in English

Good.

Well.

Proper.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 好 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are female (女) , and son (子)

Its radical^[1] is: 女 (nv3) which means: Female, Woman, Daughter, .女nv3female

In cangjie it is written with VND

How to write 好

To write好hao3good you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 子zi5son arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 子 = 好

好 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 好 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 好, looks as follow:

好

Pinyin:hao3 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: 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

女

Pinyin:nv3

Meaning^[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter

子

Pinyin:zi5

Meaning^[3]: 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)

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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