HSK 5 · Emotions

好奇 hàoqí “inquisitive” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 好奇 means

  1. inquisitive
  2. curious
  3. inquisitiveness
  4. curiosity

How to say 好奇

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale好hào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale奇qí2nd tone, rising

好奇 in a sentence

  1. 我很好奇。

    Wǒ hěn hàoqí.

    I’m curious.

    Sentence #335059 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我好奇耳垂有什么作用。

    Wǒ hàoqí ěrchuí yǒu shénme zuòyòng.

    I wonder what earlobes are for.

    Sentence #1317002 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她太过好奇，以至于打开了盒子。

    Tā tài guò hàoqí, yǐzhìyú dǎkāi le hézi.

    She was so curious that she opened the box.

    Sentence #794133 from Tatoeba

How 好奇 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hàoto be fond of; to have a tendency to
  • 女woman · nǚ
  • 子child · zǐ

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

The character 奇 (qí) with each of its parts in a different colour
奇qístrange
  • 大big · dà
  • 可may · kě

How to write 好奇

好 6 strokes · 奇 8 strokes

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

Words related to 好奇

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

Words with 奇

奇怪qíguài · strange奇迹qíjì · miracle奇妙qímiào · wonderful神奇shénqí · magical惊奇jīngqí · surprised

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FAQs

好奇 (hàoqí) means “inquisitive” or “curious”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hàoqí: hào with a 4th tone, then qí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 好奇 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haoqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 好奇 from the suggestions. Typing haoqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
好奇 is an HSK 5 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.