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好好叫

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Chinese

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all out; to one's heart's content; earnestly
all out; to one's heart's content; earnestly; hard
 
adverbial suffix
trad. (好好叫) 好好
simp. #(好好叫) 好好
alternative forms 好好較好好较
好好交

Pronunciation

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Note: 5hau-au5-ciau5 — Shanghainese, elided reading. See also 好叫.

Adverb

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好好叫 (Northern Wu)

  1. properly; appropriately; aptly; to one's best ability; very much
    好好叫 [Ningbonese, trad.]
    好好叫 [Ningbonese, simp.]
    give them a proper beating/beat them up good
  2. (used to emphasize the great extent of a difference, often in comparative contexts) greatly or extremely (different); much more
    價鈿𠲎上趟辰光好好叫便宜 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    价钿𠲎上趟辰光好好叫便宜 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    6na 8geq 5ka-di6 8veq6-te5-va6 6ngu 6zaon-thaon5 le6 6ma-gheq8-zen6-kuaon5 5hau-hau5-ciau5 5iau 6bi-gni6-leq8-meq8 [Wugniu]
    Surely your price is wrong? The last time I came here to buy this it was way cheaper!
    搿能介好好叫人家 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    搿能介好好叫人家𫪁 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    6zhieu 6non 8geq-nen6-ka5 6bau-faq7-ghau6 5hau-hau5-ciau5 5pi-veq8-ku5 6gnin-ka1-le0 [Wugniu]
    With the way you're running now, there's no way you'd compare to the others at all!

Adjective

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好好叫

  1. (Northern Wu) perfectly good; perfectly fine
    好好叫現在樣子 [Northern Wu, trad.]
    好好叫现在样子 [Northern Wu, simp.]
    3hau-hau3-ciau5-keq7 4gnin 5pie-zen6 6ye-ze4 1ngau-fu5 6yan-tsy3 [Wugniu]
    (To think) that a once perfectly decent person would ever end up like this.
    好好叫垃海 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    好好叫垃海 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    8diq-tsaq7 5uoe-meq8 5hau-hau5-ciau5-laq8-he5-ia1 1tse 6yon-theq7-yi6 8zeq-gni6 7paq-gni 6gha 8veq-pho5 6wa-gheq8-lau6 [Wugniu]
    This bowl is absolutely good still! You can use it for eight or ten more years and you won't have to worry about it breaking.
  2. (Shanghainese) (predicative) proper; well-behaved
    好好叫 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    好好叫 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    6non 1paon-ngu6 5hau-hau5-ciau5 [Wugniu]
    You'd better behave!

Derived terms

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  • (Shanghainese, contracted form) 好叫