He can't distinguish between good and evil.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好坏
good or bad
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
good or bad
02
good and bad
03
standard; quality
04
(coll.) very bad
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好坏 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好坏 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Do you know the difference between good and bad?
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好坏.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好坏.
Directly before
- 分辨好坏3
Directly after
- 好坏并1
- 好坏吗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 好坏
What does 好坏 mean in Chinese?
好坏 (hǎohuài) means good or bad.
How do you pronounce 好坏?
好坏 is pronounced hǎohuài.
Is 好坏 an HSK word?
好坏 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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