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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 要好

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
要好 yào hǎo - to be on good terms
- to be close friends
- striving for self-improvement

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
- 6 14,063 9,508 6,056

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yāo- (bound form) to demand; to coerce
yào- to want; to need; to ask for
- will; shall; about to
- need to; should
- if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5])
- (bound form) important
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

Other Words Containing 要好

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
要好 - 6 14,063 9,508 6,056