好是
Chinese
editgood; well; be fond of | be; yes; this | ||
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trad. (好是) | 好 | 是 | |
simp. #(好是) | 好 | 是 |
Pronunciation
edit- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Verb
edit好是
- (formal) to be precisely; to just happen to be; to be exactly; to be none other than
- (formal) (it) really is; (it) truly is
Adverb
edit好是
- (formal) Forming rhetorical questions declaring that something is not the truth
- (formal) fortunately; luckily
Synonyms
edit- (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)