好死

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (好死)		好	死
simp. ^#(好死)		好	死
anagram		死好

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎosǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄙˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² sei²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hó-sí
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ho³ si³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎosǐ [Phonetic: háosǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄙˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎosǐh
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-ssŭ³
  - Yale: hǎu-sž
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haosyy
  - Palladius: хаосы (xaosy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² sei²
  - Yale: hóu séi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² sei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² séi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ sei̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-sí
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˋ xi^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ xi³
  - Sinological IPA: /ho³¹ si³¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ho³ si³ [Phonetic: ho⁵ si³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: heô-sî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ɬi⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ho³ si³ [Phonetic: ho⁵ si³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho³³²⁻²¹ ɬi³³²/

Noun

好死

good death; agreeable death

Synonyms

善終／善终 (shànzhōng)

Derived terms

好死不如賴活著 / 好死不如赖活著 (hǎosǐ bùrú lài huózhe)
好死不死
好死唔死

Adjective

好死

(Cantonese, usually in rhetorical sentences) damn fantastic
邊有咁好死？ [Cantonese, trad.]
边有咁好死？ [Cantonese, simp.]
bin¹ jau⁵ gam³ hou² sei²? [Jyutping]
They'd never do something so helpful.

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “好死”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 270.