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好像

hǎo xiàng

HSK 4 2-character word

What 好像 means

1. as if
2. to seem like

The characters in 好像

• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 像xiàngto resemble; to be like; to look as if

Example sentences

• 你好像很忙。
  You look busy.
• 他好像病了。
  He seems to be sick.
• 好像她病了。
  She seemed to have been ill.
• 好像挺有趣。
  How fascinating!
• 好像很明显。
  It seems pretty obvious.

Sounds the same

Read hǎo xiàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 好象to seem; to be like (variant of 好像