好久

Character by character

• 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well
• 久jiǔ3 strokesHSK 2long time (ago); time passage, grow late

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

Example sentences

• 好久不见！

  Hǎo jiǔ bu jiàn

  Long time no see!

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• 好久不见了。

  Hǎo jiǔ bu jiàn le

  Long time, no see.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 好久. 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

• 好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2

  as if; to seem like

• 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3

  well; carefully; nicely; properly

• 久jiǔHSK 3

  (long) time; (long) duration of time

• 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

• 多久duō jiǔHSK 2

  (of time) how long?; (not) a long time

• 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]

• 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

• 不久bù jiǔHSK 2

  not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after

• 不好意思bù hǎo yì siHSK 2

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

• 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

• 好友hǎo yǒuHSK 4

  close friend; pal; (social networking website) friend

• 好听hǎo tīngHSK 1

  pleasant to hear

• 也好yě hǎoHSK 5

  that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...