好听
hǎo tīng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 好聽
Pleasant to hear: said of a song, a voice, a name or a language. Like 好看 'nice to look at' and 好吃 'tasty', it is 好 'good' plus a verb of the senses. As a predicate it usually has 很 before it, or 真 in an exclamation: 很好听 'lovely to listen to'.
Nghe hay, êm tai: nói về bài hát, giọng nói, cái tên hay một ngôn ngữ. Cùng kiểu với 好看 (đẹp) và 好吃 (ngon): 好 (tốt) cộng một động từ chỉ giác quan. Làm vị ngữ thường có 很 đứng trước, hoặc 真 trong câu cảm thán: 很好听 (nghe rất 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 “好听” mean?
Pleasant to hear: said of a song, a voice, a name or a language. Like 好看 'nice to look at' and 好吃 'tasty', it is 好 'good' plus a verb of the senses. As a predicate it usually has 很 before it, or 真 in an exclamation: 很好听 'lovely to listen to'. Literally: good to listen to
Is “好听” formal or informal?
好听 is generally neutral.