好像

Character by character

• 好hǎo6 strokesHSK 1good, excellent, fine; well
• 像xiàng13 strokesHSK 2a picture, image, figure; to resemble

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

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 好像. 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

• 像xiàngHSK 2

  to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)

• 好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3

  well; carefully; nicely; properly

• 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

• 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

• 偶像ǒu xiàngHSK 5

  idol

• 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

• 录像lù xiàngHSK 6

  to videotape; to videorecord; video recording

• 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 ...