好 歹

hǎodǎi

nounadverbHSK 7-9

“Good and bad” in Chinese is 好歹 (hǎodǎi).

Meaning

good and bad
most unfortunate occurrence
in any case

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whatever

Example

这个小孩不知好歹。

This child don't know what's coming for him.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

hǎoHSK 16 strokesgood dǎiHSK 7-94 strokesbad

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