好容易 (hou2 jung4 ji6 | hao3 rong2 yi4) : with great difficulty (lit., "very easy")

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好容易

hou2 jung4 ji6

hao3 rong2 yi4

with great difficulty (lit., "very easy"). Mostly used in an ironic context to mean the opposite of its literal meaning (i.e., 好唔容易)

Please see [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]
As an adverb is 'with great difficulty'. As an adjective(好 + 容易) is 'easy'.

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 480,000

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

好容易

This word has been viewed 3827 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 19th Aug 2005 03:53 and last edited on 26th Apr 2011 11:24

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Characters in this word:

好 hou2 hou3 - good; very; friendly; healthy; ready
容 jung4 - looks; appearance; forgive
易 ji6 jik6 - easy; change

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呢部機器好容易操作。粵
It's easy to operate this machine.
[Whilst the English version needs a dummy subject "it", the Chinese version needs no subject with "this machine" functioning as a topic of the sentence.]

呢件事睇起嚟好困難﹐但係做落去好容易。粵
This task seems quite difficult, but doing it is really easy.
[Aspect markers 起嚟 and 落去 function rather like antonyms, originally meaning "starting to" and "carrying on" respectively. ]

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