Has something good happened?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好事
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed")
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed")
02
charity
03
happy occasion
04
Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好事 appears in 20 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
That wouldn't be a good thing.
There's nothing good on television.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好事.
Directly before
- 件好事5
- 一件好事4
- 麽好事3
- 是好事2
- 身行好事1
Directly after
- 好事吗1
- 好事来1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 好事
What does 好事 mean in Chinese?
好事 (hǎoshì) means good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed").
How do you pronounce 好事?
好事 is pronounced hǎoshì. It also has the reading hàoshì.
Is 好事 an HSK word?
好事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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