拼音
- hǎo (third tone, dipping)most common
- hào (fourth tone, falling)
good, fine, well; easy to do; (hào) to be fond of, to like
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰女子The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
Mnemonic
A woman 女 and a child 子 written shoulder to shoulder — the early graph sets side by side the two things a household most wanted safe, and the pair means "good". Said in the fourth tone, hào, the same character becomes the verb "to be fond of": 爱好, a hobby.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.