好好

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	good; well; be fond of
simp. and trad. (好好)		好	好

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎohǎo, hǎohāo

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄠˇ, ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² hou²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hó-hó
Min Nan (POJ): hó-hó

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: hǎohǎo [Phonetic: háohǎo]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄠˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haohao
  - IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: hǎohāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄠ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haohau
  - IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (好好兒／好好儿)
  - Pinyin: hǎohāor
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄠㄦ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haohaul
  - IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xaʊɻʷ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    好好
    好好兒／好好儿
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² hou²
  - Yale: hóu hóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² hou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² hou²
  - IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ hou̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-hó
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho` ho`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ ho³
  - IPA: /ho³¹ ho³¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-hó
  - Tâi-lô: hó-hó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoy'hoir
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ho⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ho⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ho⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ho⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hɤ⁴¹/

Adverb

好好

in perfectly good condition
all out; to one's heart's content; earnestly; hard (of way of working)

讓我再 好好兒想想。 [MSC, trad.]
让我再 好好儿想想。 [MSC, simp.]
Ràng wǒ zài hǎohāor xiǎng xiǎng. [Pinyin]
Let me think it over again carefully.

今天不好好工作，明天工作都難保。 [MSC, trad.]
今天不好好工作，明天工作都难保。 [MSC, simp.]
Jīntiān bù hǎohǎo gōngzuò, míngtiān gōngzuò dōu nánbǎo. [Pinyin]
If you don't work hard today, you may not have a job to come back to tomorrow.
(Cantonese) very well; very good; excellent

今日天氣好好。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
今日天气好好。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]
Gam¹ jat⁶ tin¹ hei³ hou² hou². [Jyutping]
Today's weather is excellent.

呢排生意真係好好。 [Cantonese, trad.]
呢排生意真系好好。 [Cantonese, simp.]
Ni¹ paai⁴ saang¹ ji³ zan¹ hai⁶ hou² hou². [Jyutping]
Business has been booming lately.

Derived terms

好好先生 (hǎohǎo xiānsheng)

好好學習，天天向上／好好学习，天天向上 (hǎohǎo xuéxí, tiāntiān xiàngshàng)

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