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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 好事

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
好事 hǎo shì - good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed")
- charity
- happy occasion
- Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
好事 hào shì - to be meddlesome

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 2 1,432 3,925 2,487

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
hǎo- good
- appropriate; proper
- all right!
- (before a verb) easy to
- (before a verb) good to
- (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
- (verb complement indicating completion)
- (of two people) close; on intimate terms
- (after a personal pronoun) hello
hào- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
shì- matter
- thing
- item
- work
- affair
- CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

Other Words Containing 好事

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
好事 - 2 1,432 3,925 2,487
好事多磨 - - 38,944 53,360 32,529
好人好事 - - 42,367 - -