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正好

zhèng hǎo

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

正好 (zhèng hǎo) means "just (in time)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 正好 means

1. just (in time)
2. just right
3. just enough
4. to happen to
5. to chance to
6. by chance
7. it just so happens that

The characters in 正好

• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper
• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!

Example sentences

• 后天正好礼拜日。
  Hòutiān zhènghǎo Lǐbàirì.
  The day after tomorrow is Sunday.
• 我正好可以练练手。
  I could use the practice.

Where 正好 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Formal register words (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 zhèng hǎo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.