好事

Chinese

	good; well; be fond of	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (好事)	好	事
simp. ^#(好事)	好	事
alternative forms	好代 (hó-tāi) Min Nan

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎoshì

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² si⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): hó-sṳ

(Hailu, HRS): ho^ˊ sii^˖
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hó-sū / hó-sīr

(Teochew, Peng'im): ho² se⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎoshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎoshìh
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-shih⁴
  - Yale: hǎu-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoshyh
  - Palladius: хаоши (xaoši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎoshìr
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎoshìhr
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-shih⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: hǎu-shìr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoshell
  - Palladius: хаошир (xaošir)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² si⁶
  - Yale: hóu sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ siː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˋ sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ho³¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˊ sii^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /ho²⁴⁻³³ sɨ³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-sū
  - Tâi-lô: hó-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoysu
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-sīr
  - Tâi-lô: hó-sīr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sɯ⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ho² se⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hó sṳ̄
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵²⁻³⁵ sɯ¹¹/

Middle Chinese: xawX dzriH

Rime
Character	好	事
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	呼晧切	鉏吏切
Baxter	xawX	dzriH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑu^X/	/d͡ʒɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑu^X/	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑu^X/	/d͡ʒie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/haw^X/	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^H/
Li Rong	/xɑu^X/	/d͡ʒiə^H/
Wang Li	/xɑu^X/	/d͡ʒĭə^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑu^X/	/ɖ͡ʐʱi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǎo	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou²	zi⁶

Noun

好事

good thing
這不是好事嗎？／这不是好事吗？ ― Zhè bùshì hǎoshì ma? ― Isn't this a good thing?
happy event; joyous occasion (e.g. a wedding, marriage, etc.)
good deed; charitable act
Buddhist ceremony
(colloquial, sarcastic) bad thing
看你做的好事！ ― Kàn nǐ zuò de hǎoshì! ― Look at what you've done!

Synonyms

(good deed): 善事 (shànshì), 善行 (shànxíng)

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “good thing”): 壞事／坏事 (huàishì)

Derived terms

但知行好事，莫要問前程 / 但知行好事，莫要问前程
做好事
好事不出門，壞事傳千里 / 好事不出门，坏事传千里 (hǎoshì bù chūmén, huàishì chuán qiānlǐ)
好事不出門，惡事傳千里 / 好事不出门，恶事传千里
好事不出門，惡事行千里 / 好事不出门，恶事行千里
好事多妨
好事多慳 / 好事多悭
好事多磨 (hǎoshìduōmó)
好事多魔 (hǎoshìduōmó)
好事天慳 / 好事天悭
好人好事 (hǎorénhǎoshì)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hàoshì

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou³ si⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): hau-sṳ

(Hailu, HRS): hau^ˇ sii^˖
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hòⁿ-sū

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hàoshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hàoshìh
  - Wade–Giles: hao⁴-shih⁴
  - Yale: hàu-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawshyh
  - Palladius: хаоши (xaoši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hàoshìr
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ ㄕˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hàoshìhr
  - Wade–Giles: hao⁴-shih⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: hàu-shìr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawshell
  - Palladius: хаошир (xaošir)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou³ si⁶
  - Yale: hou sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou³ si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou³ xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³³ siː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hau-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: hau sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: hau⁴ si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /hau̯⁵⁵ sɨ⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: hau^ˇ sii^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /hau¹¹ sɨ³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòⁿ-sū
  - Tâi-lô: hònn-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hvorsu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ̃²¹⁻⁴¹ su³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔ̃¹¹⁻⁵³ su³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ̃²¹⁻⁵³ su²²/

Middle Chinese: xawH dzriH

Rime
Character	好	事
Reading #	2/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	呼到切	鉏吏切
Baxter	xawH	dzriH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑu^H/	/d͡ʒɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑu^H/	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑu^H/	/d͡ʒie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/haw^H/	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^H/
Li Rong	/xɑu^H/	/d͡ʒiə^H/
Wang Li	/xɑu^H/	/d͡ʒĭə^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑu^H/	/ɖ͡ʐʱi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou³	zi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤuʔ-s [m-s-]rəʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰuːs zrɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	好	事
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hào	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ xaw^H ›	‹ dzri^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁuʔ-s/	/*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/
English	love, like (v.)	serve; service, affair
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	好	事
Reading #	2/2	2/2
No.	4914	11486
Phonetic component	好	史
Rime group	幽	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	秏	事
Old Chinese	/*qʰuːs/	/*zrɯs/
Notes		史吏轉註字

Adjective

好事

meddlesome; officious

Derived terms

好事之徒
好事者 (hàoshìzhě)
好事貪功 / 好事贪功

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
好	事
こう Grade: 4	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi	goon

By surface analysis, 好 (kō, “good, favorable”) +‎ 事 (ji, “thing, matter”). Features an either kan'on or goon first kanji reading and a goon second reading.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こーじ [kóꜜòjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ko̞ːʑi]

Noun

好(こう)事(じ) • (kōji) ^{←かうじ (kauzi)^?}

an auspicious event
a good thing; good news

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
好	事
こう Grade: 4	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi	kan'yōon

Features an either kan'on or goon first kanji reading and a kan'yōon second reading.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こーず [kóꜜòzù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ko̞ːzɨ]

Noun

好事(こうず) • (kōzu) ^{←かうず (kauzu)^?}

dilettantism; dabbling

Derived terms

好(こう)事(ず)家(か) (kōzuka, “dilettante”)
好(こう)事(ず)者(しゃ) (kōzusha, “dilettante”)

References

^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
好	事

Noun

好事 • (hosa) (hangeul 호사)

hanja form^? of 호사

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
好	事

Noun

好事

chữ Hán form of hảo sự
chữ Hán form of hiếu sự

[SMK7-1] Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-3] 3.0 ^3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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