好友

Chinese

Etymology 1

		good; well; be fond of	friend
trad. (好友)		好	友
simp. ^#(好友)		好	友
anagram		友好

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎoyǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄧㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² jau⁵
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ho² iu²
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁵hau-yeu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎoyǒu [Phonetic: háoyǒu]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄧㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎoyǒu
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-yu³
  - Yale: hǎu-yǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoyeou
  - Palladius: хаою (xaoju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² jau⁵
  - Yale: hóu yáuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² jau⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² yeo⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ jɐu̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ho² iu²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hó iú
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵²⁻³⁵ iu⁵²⁻²¹/
Wu
- (Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵hau-yeu
  - MiniDict: hau^去 yeu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²hau-hhieu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /hɔ³³ ɦiɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

好友 (countable)

good friend (Classifier: 名 m c; 位 m c; 個／个 m c)
(social media) friend; contact (Classifier: 名 m c; 位 m c; 個／个 m c)

Synonyms

(good friend):

友好 (yǒuhǎo)
同袍 (tóngpáo) (literary)
執友／执友 (zhíyǒu) (literary)
相知 (xiāngzhī)
知交 (zhījiāo)
知友 (zhīyǒu)
知己 (zhījǐ)
知心 (zhīxīn)
知心朋友 (zhīxīn péngyou)
知言 (zhīyán) (literary)
知遇 (zhīyù) (literary)
知音 (zhīyīn)
良朋 (liángpéng) (literary)
良知 (liángzhī)
高朋 (gāopéng) (literary)
齒輪／齿轮 (ci³ nen²) (Sichuanese)

Derived terms

好友列表 (hǎoyǒu lièbiǎo)
親朋好友／亲朋好友 (qīnpénghǎoyǒu)

Etymology 2

		good; well; be fond of	friend
trad. (好友)		好	友
simp. ^#(好友)		好	友
anagram		友好

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² jau^5-2

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² jau^5-2
  - Yale: hóu yáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² jau^5-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² yeo^5-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ jɐu̯¹³⁻³⁵/

Noun

好友

(Hong Kong, chiefly finance) optimist; bull

Antonyms

淡友

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