good; fine; okay
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好 is written with 6 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
好 (hǎo) is the all-purpose 'good' of Mandarin and one of the first characters every learner meets.
As an adjective it describes anything positive — quality, character, weather, taste: 好书 (good book), 好人 (good person), 好天气 (good weather). As a standalone reply it means 'okay / sure / will do' — the way English uses 'sounds good.' It also appears in greetings (你好 = 'hi'), as an intensifier before adjectives meaning 'very / so' (好大 = 'so big,' 好漂亮 = 'so pretty'), and as a resultative complement on verbs meaning 'done / completed' (写好了 = 'finished writing').
One quirk: with a second 3rd tone after it (like 你好), 好 keeps its written tone mark but is pronounced as a 'half-third' tone. 好 is the workhorse word for approval, agreement, and quality in Chinese.
好 appears in 6 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
你好！
Nǐ hǎo!
Hi!
neutral
这本书很好。
Zhè běn shū hěn hǎo.
This book is very good.
neutral
好的，没问题。
Hǎo de, méi wèntí.
Okay, no problem.
spoken
今天天气好。
Jīntiān tiānqì hǎo.
The weather is nice today.
spoken
不错 literally 'not bad,' used like 'pretty good' — a notch below 好 in enthusiasm, often safer with strangers or when grading something modestly. Native speakers use 不错 a lot to mean 'quite good.'
棒 means 'awesome / excellent,' more colloquial and energetic than 好. 你真棒 = 'you're awesome.' 好 is neutral; 棒 carries praise.
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