好是

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	be; yes; this
trad. (好是)		好	是
simp. #(好是)		好	是

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎoshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎoshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎoshìh
    • Wade–Giles: hao³-shih⁴
    • Yale: hǎu-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoshyh
    • Palladius: хаоши (xaoši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

Verb

好是

1. (formal) to be precisely; to just happen to be; to be exactly; to be none other than
2. (formal) (it) really is; (it) truly is

Adverb

好是

1. (formal) Forming rhetorical questions declaring that something is not the truth
2. (formal) fortunately; luckily

Synonyms

• (forming rhetorical questions declaring that something is not the truth): 豈是／岂是 (qǐshì)
• (fortunately):

• 佳哉 (Hokkien)
• 多虧／多亏 (duōkuī)
• 好代得 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 好佳哉 (Hokkien)
• 好值得 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 好在 (hǎozài)
• 好彩 (Cantonese, Hakka)
• 好得 (Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew)
• 好路 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 幸好 (xìnghǎo)
• 幸而 (xìng'ér)
• 幸虧／幸亏 (xìngkuī)
• 得虧／得亏 (děikuī) (dialectal)
• 打幫／打帮 (Hakka)
• 虧／亏 (kuī)
• 虧得／亏得 (kuīde)
• 造化 (cô̤-*huá) (Eastern Min)