HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Adverbs

好好 hǎohǎo “properly” in Chinese

Said as háohǎo

Same in Traditional

What 好好 means

  1. properly
  2. carefully
  3. nicely
  4. in perfectly good condition
  5. perfectly all right
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • well
  • thoroughly

How to say 好好

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale好hǎo3rd tone, dipping

Said as háohǎo. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

好好 in a sentence

  1. 好好休息吧！

    Hǎohǎo xiūxi ba!

    Get a good rest!

    Sentence #4887549 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 好好努力，你就能通过考试。

    Hǎohǎo nǔlì, nǐ jiù néng tōngguò kǎoshì.

    Work hard and you’ll pass the exam.

    Sentence #334668 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我回答您之前要好好考虑一下。

    Wǒ huídá nín zhīqián yào hǎohǎo kǎolǜ yíxià.

    I need to think it over carefully before I answer you.

    Sentence #614599 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 好好 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 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.

How to write 好好

好 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 好好

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好多hǎoduō · a lot of好久hǎojiǔ · a long time

More words: Adverbs & Degree

全quán · whole同样tóngyàng · likewise就是jiùshì · exactly已yǐ · already再次zàicì · once again仍réng · still仅jǐn · only更加gèngjiā · even more

FAQs

好好 (hǎohǎo) means “properly” or “carefully”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it hǎohǎo: hǎo with a 3rd tone, then hǎo with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like háohǎo. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 好好 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haohao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 好好 from the suggestions. Typing haohao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
好好 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 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.