好歹

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	bad; wicked; evil
trad. (好歹)		好	歹
simp. ^#(好歹)		好	歹
alternative forms		好否 Hokkien

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎodǎi

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄉㄞˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² daai²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hó-pháiⁿ / hó-phái

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎodǎi [Phonetic: háodǎi]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄉㄞˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎodǎi
  - Wade–Giles: hao³-tai³
  - Yale: hǎu-dǎi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haodae
  - Palladius: хаодай (xaodaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ taɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou² daai²
  - Yale: hóu dáai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou² daai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou² dai²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ taːi̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-pháiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: hó-pháinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoyphvae
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ pʰãi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pʰãi⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-phái
  - Tâi-lô: hó-phái
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoyphae
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ pʰai⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pʰai⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ pʰai⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

好歹

good and evil
- 地也，你不分好歹何為地？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  地也，你不分好歹何为地？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 13^th to 14^th century, Guan Hanqing, The Injustice to Dou E
  Dì yě, nǐ bù fēn hǎodǎi hé wéi dì? [Pinyin]
  Mother Earth, what a Mother you are now that you cannot distinguish between good and evil?
mishap; misadventure; accident
你要有個好歹，我還怎麼活啊！ [MSC, trad.]
你要有个好歹，我还怎么活啊！ [MSC, simp.]
Nǐ yào yǒu ge hǎodǎi, wǒ hái zěnme huó a! [Pinyin]
How could I live should any mishap befall you!

Synonyms

(good and bad):

善惡／善恶 (shàn'è)
好壞／好坏 (hǎohuài)
好䆀 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
好賴／好赖 (hǎolài)
是非 (shìfēi)
臧否 (zāngpǐ) (literary)
長短／长短 (chángduǎn)
黑白 (hēibái) (figurative)

(mishap):

不幸事件 (bùxìng shìjiàn)
不測／不测 (bùcè)
事故 (shìgù)
失閃／失闪 (shīshǎn)
岔子 (chàzi)
差池
差錯／差错 (chācuò)
意外 (yìwài)
故事 (archic)
緣故／缘故 (yuángù) (archaic)
變故／变故 (biàngù)
長短／长短 (chángduǎn)
閃失／闪失 (shǎnshī)

Derived terms

不分好歹
不知好歹 (bùzhīhǎodǎi)
不識好歹／不识好歹 (bùshíhǎodǎi)
有個好歹／有个好歹

Adverb

好歹

in any case; after all
我好歹也是個國家金牌啊！ [MSC, trad.]
我好歹也是个国家金牌啊！ [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ hǎodǎi yě shì ge guójiā jīnpái a! [Pinyin]
I'm a national gold medalist after all!
somehow; just; simply

Synonyms

(in any case):

不管怎樣／不管怎样 (bùguǎnzěnyàng)
不管怎麼樣／不管怎么样 (bùguǎn zěnmeyàng)
反正
好賴／好赖 (hǎolài)
橫直／横直 (héngzhí) (dialectal)
橫豎／横竖 (héngshù)
橫豎橫／横竖横 (Northern Wu)
死活 (sǐhuó)
無論如何／无论如何 (wúlùnrúhé)
生死 (sen¹ si³) (Sichuanese)
紅黑／红黑 (hong² he²) (Sichuanese)
總之／总之 (zǒngzhī)
長短／长短 (chángduǎn) (literary)

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