Chinese Word Detail

Remove Adverts
What is this page showing me?

好吃懶做

hou3 hek3 laan5 zou6

hao4 chi1 lan3 zuo4

lazy (sits around eating too much doing nothing)

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

好吃懶做

This word was added by bybell on 1st Jun 2008 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008

Sponsors: One-on-One Online Chinese Tutoring | Classic Games | Mandarin
Spanish Language | Dish Network promotion code | Teaching in China

好 hou2 hou3 hao3 {hao4} - good, fine; very much
吃 hek3 jaak3 chi1 - eat
懶 laan5 lan3 - lazy; listless; indolent; sluggish
做 zou6 zuo4 - do, make

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/46292/]好吃懶做[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/46292/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">好吃懶做</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 好吃懶做

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the word in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).

the meaning of the word, typed in by our volunteer editors
guidelines on whether the word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese etc (if nothing is present the word may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin)
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font
a list of each of the characters for the word, showing jyutping and meaning (if our dictionary contains that character)

this thread