HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Adjectives

好玩儿 hǎowánr “amusing” in Chinese

Traditional 好玩兒

What 好玩儿 means

  1. amusing
  2. fun

How to say 好玩儿

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale好hǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale玩wán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

好玩儿 in a sentence

  1. 这个游戏很好玩儿。

    Zhè ge yóuxì hěn hǎowánr.

    This game is a lot of fun.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 北京有很多好玩儿的地方。

    Běijīng yǒu hěn duō hǎowánr de dìfang.

    Beijing has lots of fun places to visit.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  3. 昨天的晚会真好玩儿！

    Zuótiān de wǎnhuì zhēn hǎowánr!

    Last night’s party was really fun!

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 好玩儿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 好 (hǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
好hǎogood
  • 女woman · nǚ
  • 子child · zǐ

Memory aidA woman 女 with her child 子: something good.

The character 玩 (wán) with each of its parts in a different colour
玩wánto play
  • 王king · wángMeaning part
  • 元first · yuánSound part

王 hints at the meaning (king); 元 (yuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with wán.

Memory aid王 here is jade 玉: turning a piece of jade over in your hands. 元 (yuán) gives the sound: to play.

The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 好玩儿

好 6 strokes · 玩 8 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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好玩儿 (hǎowánr) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 好玩儿 (hǎowánr). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 好玩儿

Words with 好

好hǎo · good你好nǐ hǎo · hello好看hǎokàn · good-looking好听hǎotīng · pleasant to hear好吃hǎochī · delicious不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed爱好àihào · hobby好多hǎoduō · a lot of好久hǎojiǔ · a long time好像hǎoxiàng · as if

Words with 玩

玩wán · to play开玩笑kāiwánxiào · to play a joke玩具wánjù · plaything玩弄wánnòng · to play with玩意儿wányìr · thing

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy女孩儿nǚháir · girl

More words: Adjectives

高兴gāoxìng · happy漂亮piàoliang · beautiful好看hǎokàn · good-looking好听hǎotīng · pleasant to hear快乐kuàilè · happy慢màn · slow快kuài · fast长cháng · long

FAQs

好玩儿 (hǎowánr) means “amusing” or “fun”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it hǎowánr: hǎo with a 3rd tone, then wán with a 2nd tone, then r with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 好玩儿 is written 好玩兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haowanr with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 好玩儿 from the suggestions. Typing haowanr into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
好玩儿 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.