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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

好过

hǎoguò

to have an easy time

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to have an easy time

02

(feel) well

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 好过 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好过 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我从来没感觉那么好过。wǒ cóng lái méi gǎn jué nà me hǎo guò。

Never have I felt better.

做一个黑人好过做一个同志。如果你生下来就是黑人,至少你不用烦恼怎么向你的母亲说这件事。zuò yí gè hēi rén hǎo guò zuò yí gè tóng zhì。 rú guǒ nǐ shēng xià lái jiù shì hēi rén, zhì shǎo nǐ bù yòng fán nǎo zěn me xiàng nǐ de mǔ qīn shuō zhè jiàn shì。

To be black is better than to be gay. If you were born black, at least you don't have to think about how to tell your mother about this.

活得丰富充实好过死后空留无用的金钱。huó dé fēng fù chōng shí hǎo guò sǐ hòu kōng liú wú yòng de jīn qián。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 好过.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好过.

Directly before

  • 那么好过1
  • 充实好过1
  • 黑人好过1

Directly after

  • 好过死1
  • 好过做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 好过

What does 好过 mean in Chinese?

好过 (hǎoguò) means to have an easy time.

How do you pronounce 好过?

好过 is pronounced hǎoguò.

Is 好过 an HSK word?

好过 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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