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好在

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Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing
trad. (好在)		好	在
simp. ^#(好在)		好	在

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎozài

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄗㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² zoi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hó-chhai
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hó-chǎi / hó-chāi

(Teochew, Peng'im): ho² zai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎozài
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄗㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎozài
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-tsai⁴
  - Yale: hǎu-dzài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haotzay
  - Palladius: хаоцзай (xaoczaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡saɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² zoi⁶
  - Yale: hóu joih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² dzoi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² zoi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ t͡sɔːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-chhai
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˋ cai
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ cai⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ho³¹ t͡sʰai̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-chǎi
  - Tâi-lô: hó-tsǎi
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sai²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-chāi
  - Tâi-lô: hó-tsāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoyzai
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sai²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ho² zai⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hó tsăi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sai³⁵/

Adverb

好在

fortunately; luckily
- 好在延安許多同志已有詳盡的文章，我的粗枝大葉的東西，就當作一番開臺鑼鼓好了。 [MSC, trad.]
  好在延安许多同志已有详尽的文章，我的粗枝大叶的东西，就当作一番开台锣鼓好了。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Hǎozài Yán'ān xǔduō tóngzhì yǐ yǒu xiángjìn de wénzhāng, wǒ de cūzhīdàyè de dōngxi, jiù dàngzuò yīfān kāitáiluógǔ hǎo le. [Pinyin]
  Fortunately, there are many comrades in Yenan who have written at length in this field, so that my rough and ready words may serve the same purpose as the beating of the gongs before a theatrical performance.

Synonyms

佳哉 (Hokkien)
多虧／多亏 (duōkuī)
好代得 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
好佳哉 (Hokkien)
好值得 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
好彩 (Cantonese, Hakka)
好得 (Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew)
好是 (hǎoshì) (formal)
好路 (Xiamen Hokkien)
幸好 (xìnghǎo)
幸而 (xìng'ér)
幸虧／幸亏 (xìngkuī)
得虧／得亏 (děikuī) (dialectal)
打幫／打帮 (Hakka)
虧／亏 (kuī)
虧得／亏得 (kuīde)
造化 (cô̤-*huá) (Eastern Min)

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