好人

Chinese

		good	person
trad. (好人)		好	人
simp. #(好人)		好	人
alternative forms		好儂／好侬 (Min)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎorén

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² jan⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hó-ngìn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hó-lâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ho² nang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎorén
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎorén
    • Wade–Giles: hao³-jên²
    • Yale: hǎu-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoren
    • Palladius: хаожэнь (xaožɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou² jan⁴
    • Yale: hóu yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou² jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou² yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ jɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-ngìn
    • Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˋ ngin^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ ngin²
    • Sinological IPA: /ho³¹ ŋin¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-lâng
    • Tâi-lô: hó-lâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoylaang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ laŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ho² nang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hó nâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵²⁻³⁵ naŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

好人

1. good person (of upright character)

   做好人  ―  zuò hǎorén  ―  to be a good person

2. healthy person
3. (sometimes derogatory) person who tries to get along with everyone; mediator
4. (literary) fair one; beautiful person

   • 要之襋之，好人服之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yāo zhī jí zhī, hǎorén fú zhī. [Pinyin]

     [The maidservant] sews at the waist and the collar, And the fair one [i.e., the mistress] wears it.

   • 昨夜眼皮瞤，今朝見好人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昨夜眼皮𥆧，今朝见好人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang dynasty, 張鷟 (Zhang Zhuo), 《遊仙窟》 (Journey to the Fairy Grotto)

     Zuóyè yǎnpí shùn, jīnzhāo jiàn hǎorén. [Pinyin]

     Last night, my eyelids twitched, and this morning, I see a fair one.

Synonyms

• (good person):

Dialectal synonyms of 好人 (“good person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		好人, 佳人
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		好人
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	好人
	Singapore	好人
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	好人
	Xi'an	好人
Cantonese	Hong Kong	好人
	Singapore (Guangfu)	好人
Gan	Nanchang	好人
Huizhou	Jixi	好人
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	好儂
Southern Min	Xiamen	好儂
	Singapore (Hokkien)	好儂
	Manila (Hokkien)	好儂
	Jieyang	好囝
	Singapore (Teochew)	好儂
	Haikou	好儂
	Singapore (Hainanese)	好儂
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	好人
Wu	Danyang	好人
	Jinhua	好人

Derived terms

• 好人主義 / 好人主义
• 好人卡 (hǎorénkǎ)
• 好人好事 (hǎorénhǎoshì)
• 老好人 (lǎohǎorén)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (好人):

• → Japanese: 好人(こうじん) (kōjin)
• → Korean: 호인(好人) (hoin)

Adjective

好人

1. (of a person) nice