好看
hǎo kàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Good-looking, nice to look at; of a film or a book, good, worth watching or reading. It praises people, clothes and places alike: 她很好看 'she is pretty'. For films and books it means they are good: 那本书很好看 'that book is a good read'.
Đẹp, ưa nhìn; nói về phim, sách thì là hay, đáng xem, đáng đọc. Dùng để khen người, quần áo, phong cảnh: 她很好看 (cô ấy đẹp). Với phim, sách thì nghĩa là hay: 那本书很好看 (quyển sách ấy hay lắm). Cùng kiểu với 好吃 (ngon), 好听 (nghe hay).
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 好 = hảo · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “好看” mean?
Good-looking, nice to look at; of a film or a book, good, worth watching or reading. It praises people, clothes and places alike: 她很好看 'she is pretty'. For films and books it means they are good: 那本书很好看 'that book is a good read'. Literally: good to look at
Is “好看” formal or informal?
好看 is generally neutral.