HSK 2 · Adjectives

好吃 hǎochī “delicious” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 好吃 means

  1. delicious
  2. tasty

How to say 好吃

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale吃chī1st tone, high and level

好吃 in a sentence

  1. 我想吃点好吃的。

    Wǒ xiǎng chī diǎn hǎochī de.

    I want to eat something tasty.

    Sentence #5097672 from Tatoeba

  2. 你做饭做得很好吃。

    Nǐ zuòfàn zuò de hěn hǎochī.

    Your cooking is delicious.

    Sentence #1728948 from Tatoeba

  3. 这条鱼很好吃。

    Zhè tiáo yú hěn hǎochī.

    This fish is delicious.

    Sentence #2778814 from Tatoeba

How 好吃 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 吃 (chī) with each of its parts in a different colour
吃chīto eat; to consume
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 乞to beg · qǐSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 乞 (qǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with chī.

How to write 好吃

好 6 strokes · 吃 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 好吃

Words with 好

好hǎo · good你好nǐ hǎo · hello好看hǎokàn · good-looking好听hǎotīng · pleasant to hear好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing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 吃

吃chī · to eat小吃xiǎochī · snack吃惊chījīng · to be startled吃亏chīkuī · to lose out吃苦chīkǔ · to endure hardship吃力chīlì · strenuous

More words: Adjectives

非常fēicháng · extremely最zuì · most晴qíng · sunny阴yīn · cloudy白色báisè · white不错bùcuò · not bad黑色hēisè · black红色hóngsè · red (colour)

FAQs

好吃 (hǎochī) means “delicious” or “tasty”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it hǎochī: hǎo with a 3rd tone, then chī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 好吃 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haochi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 好吃 from the suggestions. Typing haochi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
好吃 is an HSK 2 word in the 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.