I was aided by a dear friend.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好友
close friend
IN A VIDEO好友
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
close friend
02
pal
03
(social networking website) friend
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好友 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好友 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom and his friends planned to rob a bank.
I wanted to add Mary as a friend on Facebook.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好友.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好友.
Directly before
- 的好友2
- 脸书好友2
- 一位好友1
- 我加好友1
- 了好友1
Directly after
- 好友的2
- 好友还1
- 好友之一1
- 好友写信1
- 好友打算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 好友
What does 好友 mean in Chinese?
好友 (hǎoyǒu) means close friend.
How do you pronounce 好友?
好友 is pronounced hǎoyǒu.
Is 好友 an HSK word?
好友 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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