Chinese words starting with “hao”

37 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable hao. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 12 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.

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2nd tone 7
3rd tone 20
4th tone 10

Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.

Common words with this syllable

好像hǎo xiàngHSK 2
as if; to seem like
好好hǎo hǎoHSK 3
well; carefully; nicely; properly
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
好久hǎo jiǔHSK 2
quite a while
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
好听hǎo tīngHSK 1
pleasant to hear
好玩儿hǎo wán rHSK 1
erhua variant of 好玩; amusing; fun; interesting

All 37 words

#	Word	Pinyin	POS	Meaning
1	好	hǎo	a,d,v	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
2	号	hào	q,n,v	ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people
3	好运	hǎo yùn	n	good luck
4	号码	hào mǎ	n	number
5	毫无	háo wú	v	not in the least; to completely lack
6	豪华	háo huá	a,an	luxurious
7	好友	hǎo yǒu	n	close friend; pal; (social networking website) friend
8	好笑	hǎo xiào	a	laughable; funny; ridiculous
9	好转	hǎo zhuǎn	v,vn	to improve; to take a turn for the better; improvement
10	毫不	háo bù	d	hardly; not in the least; not at all
11	耗	hào	v,g	to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
12	好不容易	hǎo bù róng yì	l	with great difficulty; very difficult
13	好感	hǎo gǎn	n	good opinion; favorable impression
14	好比	hǎo bǐ	v	to be just like; can be compared to
15	好心	hǎo xīn	n,a	kindness; good intentions
16	好坏	hǎo huài	n	good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
17	好说	hǎo shuō	a	easy to deal with; not a problem; (polite answer) you flatter me
18	好评	hǎo píng	n	favorable criticism; positive evaluation
19	毫不犹豫	háo bù yóu yù	l	without the slightest hesitation
20	号召	hào zhào	v,vn	to call; to appeal
21	好歹	hǎo dǎi	d,n	good and bad; most unfortunate occurrence; in any case; whatever
22	好奇心	hào qí xīn	n	interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
23	号称	hào chēng	v	to be known as; to be nicknamed; to be purportedly; to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
24	好意	hǎo yì	n	good intention; kindness
25	好似	hǎo sì	v	to seem; to be like
26	好在	hǎo zài	d	luckily; fortunately
27	耗费	hào fèi	v	to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander
28	好心人	hǎo xīn rén	n	kindhearted person; good Samaritan
29	好家伙	hǎo jiā huo	e	my God!; oh boy!; man!
30	毫米	háo mǐ	q	millimeter
31	浩劫	hào jié	n	calamity; catastrophe; apocalypse
32	耗时	hào shí	v	time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time)
33	毫升	háo shēng	q	milliliter
34	好客	hào kè	a,an	hospitality; to treat guests well; to enjoy having guests; hospitable; friendly
35	好容易	hǎo róng yì	d	(idiomatic usage) with great difficulty; to have a hard time (convincing sb, relinquishing sth etc); (literal usage) so easy
36	豪迈	háo mài	a,an	bold; open-minded; heroic
37	好学	hǎo xué	a	easy to learn

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