HAO-3

('hao' in the third tone)

There are some 29 standard Chinese characters with a 'hao' pronunciation. A major sound-indicating component is 高 , with six occcurences, even though as a independent character, 高 is spoken ‘gao’, not ‘hao’.

The most common 'hao' words are:

好 = hao(3) = good

号 = hao(4) = number, date of a month

好 = hao(3) = good

This word has many more functions that just as adjective meaning ‘good’. For example, adding 好不好 (literally ‘good no good’) at the end of a sentence turns this sentence into a question, starting, in English, with: Would you like to... ?

陪我去逛街好不好? = Pei(2) wo(3) qu(4) guang(4) jie(1) hao(3) bu(4) hao(3)? = Wouild you like to go for a walk with me?

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