Wénhuà jiāoliú jìhuà kěyǐ jiāqiáng línguó zhījiān de yǒuhǎo guānxi.
Cultural exchange programmes can strengthen friendly relations between neighbouring countries.
Sentence #13580036 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 友好 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.
友yǒufriend
友 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidTwo hands 又 joined: friendship.
好hǎogood
女woman · nǚ
子child · zǐ
Memory aidA woman 女 with her child 子: something good.
How to write 友好
友 4 strokes · 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.
Stroke order chart for 友好 (yǒuhǎo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
友好 (yǒuhǎo) means “friendly” or “amicable”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yǒuhǎo: yǒu with a 3rd tone, then hǎo with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like yóuhǎo. 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. 友好 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youhao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 友好 from the suggestions. Typing youhao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
友好 is an HSK 4 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.
友yǒu3rd tone, dipping
