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          Arturo Ramos
        
      
      Date : 2009-07-03 / 01:54PM
      
        Hi Benny, I found at a chinese-english dictionary this caracter: 好, I know it means good, but it had 2 tones one was hao3 and the other was hao2, so why is that difference? and how can I know when it’s the 3 or the 2nd tone?
Arturo
       
      
      
        
        
          
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  |  |  Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com  2009-07-03 / 05:44PM |   |  Hi Arturo, 
Which dictionary did you use? 
Benny 
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2009-06-18 Language : English, Japanese Posts : 2 Responses : 24 Comments : 16   |  
  |  |  mobilesuit gmail.com  2009-07-03 / 06:06PM |   |  Standardly, “好” only has one tone “third tone” 
That’s for sure, if you looked up the dictionary, there is another special usage of “好” which is fourth tone, it is used as a verb. I can’t find the 好 with second tone. 
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2009-06-18 Language : Mandarin Chinese Posts : 3 Responses : 66 Comments : 4   |  
  |  |  wei hotmail.com  2009-07-03 / 07:14PM |   |  To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher
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 Hi Arturo, 
Which dictionary did you use? 
Benny mobilesuit is right .  third tone and fourth tone . 
the usages: 
好 hǎo 1\adj   
beautiful; good;fine;nice;friendly;kind;in good health;get well;beeasy(todo);simple;likely;complete;finished;allright;OK,okay;beeasyto;beconvenientfor;suitable;fitting 
2\adv  
very; how ;good 
3\Auxiliary Verb 
may; oughtto ;so as to ; 
好 hào v. 
like;be keen on;be fond of 
be able to 
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