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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 好歹

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
好歹 hǎo dǎi - good and bad
- most unfortunate occurrence
- in any case
- whatever

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
- 8 10,759 13,642 7,407

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
dǎi- bad
- wicked
- evil
- Kangxi radical 78

Other Words Containing 好歹

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
好歹 - 8 10,759 13,642 7,407