Chinese word dictionary

叫好

jiàohǎo · to applaud; to cheer

Practice word

Word information

Simplified叫好

Traditional叫好

Pinyinjiàohǎo

Part of speech动

HSK 3.07-9

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

叫jiào

cry, shout; to call, to greet, to hail

好hǎo

good; well

How to learn 叫好

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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好hǎo

good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello

好吃hǎochī

tasty; delicious

好看hǎokàn

good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situation

好听hǎotīng

pleasant to hear

好玩儿hǎowánr

erhua variant of 好玩[hao3 wan2]

叫jiào

to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood); variant of 叫[jiao4]