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好奇

hào qí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

好奇 (hào qí) means "inquisitive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 好奇 means

1. inquisitive
2. curious
3. inquisitiveness
4. curiosity

The characters in 好奇

• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 奇qístrange; odd; weird

Example sentences

• 我很好奇。
  I am curious.
• 我不好奇。
  I am not curious.
• 这些人好奇怪。
  These people are so weird.
• 汤姆说他很好奇。
  Tāngmǔ shuō tā hěn hàoqí.
  Tom said that he was curious.
• 好奇会吃苦头的。
  Hàoqí huì chīkǔtou de.
  Curiosity killed the cat.
• 他对什么都感好奇。
  Tā duì shénme dōu gǎn hàoqí.
  He's curious about everything.

Words starting with 好奇

• 好奇心hào qí xīninterest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
• 好奇尚异hào qí shàng yìto have a taste for the exotic (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read hào qí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 号旗signaling flag

Where 好奇 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Candor, Clarity & Attitude (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hào qí correctly.
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