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Kanji Detail for 好 - "to like, good, friendly"

  • Meaning

    好 means "to like, good, friendly."

    1. Good - Favorable; pleasant.

    2. Like - To be fond of; to prefer.

    3. Friendly - On good terms; close.

  • Words using

    • 友好 ゆうこう Listen friendship
    • 好調 こうちょう Listen favourable; favorable; promising
    • 格好 かっこう Listen shape; form; figure
    • 好機 こうき Listen good opportunity; chance
    • 好み このみ Listen liking; taste; fancy
    • 好投 こうとう Listen good (nice) pitching
    • 絶好 ぜっこう Listen best; ideal; perfect
    • 大好き だいすき Listen liking very much; loving (something or someone); adoring
  • Four-character idioms with

    • 善隣友好 ぜんりんゆうこう Listen neighbourly friendship; neighborly friendship
    • 好事多魔 こうじたま Listen happy events are often accompanied by difficulties; unsullied joy is rare
    • 好機到来 こうきとうらい Listen advent of a golden opportunity
    • 晴好雨奇 せいこううき Listen the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather
    • 雨奇晴好 うきせいこう Listen scenery being beautiful in both rainy and sunny weather
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    • Verified meaning: to like, good, friendly
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こう, このみ, このむ, すう)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of

    Given names (こう)Listen (このみ)Listen (このむ)Listen (すう)Listen (みよし)Listen (よし)Listen (よしみ)Listen (よしむ)Listen (らいく)Listen

    Surnames (よしさき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fond; pleasing; like something

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    good, excellent, fine; well

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    good, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Beautiful; good. | Being friendly. Such as calling friends 相好. | To love without letting go. (Book of Odes) "In the heart, loving it."
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
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Sentences including

  • I appreciate what you've done for me.

  • My mother loves music.

  • He is crazy about baseball.

  • I like chocolate.

  • You can take whichever way you like.

  • I don't like either tea or coffee.

  • One of my favorite tunes was playing on the radio.

  • He likes to work in the garden.

  • You may invite whoever you like.

  • I like coffee better.

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