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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

好记性不如烂笔头hǎo jì xìng bù rú làn bǐ tóu

the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom)

好说歹说hǎo shuō dǎi shuō

(idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb / to reason with sb in every way possible

好象hǎo xiàng

to seem / to be like (variant of 好像[hǎo xiàng])

好起来hǎo qǐ lai

to get better / to improve / to get well

好办hǎo bàn

easy to do / easy to manage

好辩hào biàn

argumentative / quarrelsome

好逸恶劳hào yì wù láo

to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)

好运符hǎo yùn fú

good luck charm

好道hǎo dào

don't tell me ... / could it be that...?

好酒沉瓮底hǎo jiǔ chén wèng dǐ

lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom) / fig. the best is saved for last

好酒贪杯hào jiǔ tān bēi

fond of the bottle (idiom)

好险hǎo xiǎn

to have a close call / to have a narrow escape

好面子hào miàn zi

to be overly concerned with face

好饭不怕晚hǎo fàn bù pà wǎn

the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten / the good things in life are worth waiting for

好马不吃回头草hǎo mǎ bù chī huí tóu cǎo

lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind

好高骛远hào gāo wù yuǎn

to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) / to aim too high

好鸟hǎo niǎo

person of good character / nice person / bird with a melodious voice or beautiful plumage

一把好手yī bǎ hǎo shǒu

expert / dab hand

下午好xià wǔ hǎo

(greeting) good afternoon

不到长城非好汉bù dào Cháng chéng fēi hǎo hàn

lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person / fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal

不太好bù tài hǎo

not so good / not too well

不好受bù hǎo shòu

unpleasant / hard to take

不好说bù hǎo shuō

hard to say / can't be sure / difficult to speak about / unpleasant to say

不安好心bù ān hǎo xīn

to have bad intentions

不怀好意bù huái hǎo yì

(idiom) to harbor evil designs / to harbor malicious intentions

不知好歹bù zhī hǎo dǎi

unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions

不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo

it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)