HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Numbers

好多 hǎoduō “a lot of” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 好多 means

  1. a lot of
  2. many
  3. much
  4. quite a lot
  5. much better

How to say 好多

  • 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多duō1st tone, high and level

好多 in a sentence

  1. 我有好多朋友。

    Wǒ yǒu hǎoduō péngyou.

    I have lots of friends.

    Sentence #382503 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 那里人好多。

    Nàli rén hǎoduō.

    There are so many people there.

    Sentence #9969262 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我还有好多问题要问你呢。

    Wǒ hái yǒu hǎoduō wèntí yào wèn nǐ ne.

    I still have so many questions to ask you.

    Sentence #12224392 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 好多 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 多 (duō) with each of its parts in a different colour
多duōmany; much; more; a lot of
  • 夕evening · xī
  • 夕evening · xī

Memory aidTwo 夕 shapes stacked up: many.

How to write 好多

好 6 strokes · 多 6 strokes

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

Words related to 好多

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好吃hǎochī · delicious不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed爱好àihào · hobby好久hǎojiǔ · a long time好像hǎoxiàng · as if

Words with 多

多duō · many多少duōshǎo · how many多么duōme · how许多xǔduō · many差不多chàbuduō · almost多余duōyú · superfluous多亏duōkuī · thanks to多元化duōyuánhuà · diversification见多识广jiànduōshíguǎng · well-informed and experienced

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FAQs

好多 (hǎoduō) means “a lot of” or “many”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it hǎoduō: hǎo with a 3rd tone, then duō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 好多 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haoduo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 好多 from the suggestions. Typing haoduo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
好多 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.