只好

Character by character

• 只zhǐ5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 戠only, just, simply
• 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 只好. 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

• 只zhǐHSK 2

  only; merely; just; but

• 只是zhǐ shìHSK 3

  merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however

• 只有zhǐ yǒuHSK 3

  only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in")

• 只要zhǐ yàoHSK 2

  if only; so long as

• 好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2

  as if; to seem like

• 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3

  well; carefully; nicely; properly

• 只能zhǐ néngHSK 2

  can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice

• 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

• 只不过zhǐ bu guòHSK 5

  only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...

• 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

• 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