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好吃

hǎo chī

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

好吃 (hǎo chī) means "tasty". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 好吃 means

1. tasty; delicious

Other readings

好吃 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• hào chīto be fond of eating; to be gluttonous

The characters in 好吃

• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy

Example sentences

• 好吃吗？
  Does it taste good?
• 真好吃。
  This is so tasty.
• 很好吃。
  Delicious.
• 好好吃！
  So delicious!
• 全都好吃！
  Everything was delicious!
• 非常好吃！
  Very delicious!

Words starting with 好吃

• 好吃懒做hào chī lǎn zuòhappy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom); all take and no give

Where 好吃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food and Drink (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hǎo chī correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.