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好处

hǎo chu

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 好處

好处 (hǎo chù) means "benefit; advantage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 好处 means

1. benefit; advantage; merit
2. gain; profit
3. also pr. hǎo chù

Other readings

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

• hǎo chǔeasy to get along with

The characters in 好处

• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 处chǔto reside; to live; to dwell

Example sentences

• 这对谁有好处？
  Who benefits?
• 这药对你有好处。
  This medicine will do you good.
• 这幺做没什幺好处。
  Doing things in this way has no benefit.
• 这么做有什么好处吗？
  Zhème zuò yǒu shénme hǎochu ma?
  Does doing things in this way have a benefit?
• 会用电脑是一个好处。
  It is an advantage to be able to use a computer.
• 这幺做有什幺好处吗？
  Does doing things in this way have a benefit?

Words containing 好处

• 恰到好处qià dào hǎo chùit's just perfect; it's just right

Where 好处 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Descriptions & quality (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hǎo chu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.