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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

还好

háihǎo

not bad; pretty good

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

not bad; pretty good

02

fortunately; luckily

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 还好 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 还好 appears in 19 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我还好。wǒ hái hǎo。

I'm still good.

你还好吧?nǐ hái hǎo ba?

Are you alright?

最近还好么?zuì jìn hái hǎo me?

You've been well lately?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 还好.

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

Directly before

  • 你还好4
  • 都还好2
  • 觉得还好1
  • 时候还好1
  • 最近还好1

Directly after

  • 还好吗6
  • 还好吧3
  • 还好寒假1
  • 还好么1
  • 还好侥幸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 还好

What does 还好 mean in Chinese?

还好 (háihǎo) means not bad; pretty good.

How do you pronounce 还好?

还好 is pronounced háihǎo.

Is 还好 an HSK word?

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

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