Chinese symbol for “handy”
好用
hǎo yòng
useful; serviceable; effective; handy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for handy is 好用 (hǎo yòng), defined as: useful; serviceable; effective; handy; easy to use.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “handy”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 简便 (簡便) | jiǎn biàn | simple and convenient; handy |
| 便当 (便當) | biàn dāng | convenient; handy |
| 顺手儿 (順手兒) | shùn shǒu r | handy; convenient and easy to use |
| 灵便 (靈便) | líng biàn | quick; agile |
| 趁手 | chèn shǒu | conveniently; without extra trouble; convenient; handy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 好用.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最好 | zuì hǎo | best; had better ...; it would be best to ... |
| 好像 | hǎo xiàng | as if; to seem like |
| 不好 | bù hǎo | no good |
| 好好 | hǎo hǎo | in perfectly good condition; perfectly all right; well; thoroughly; carefully; properly |
| 良好 | liáng hǎo | good; favorable |
| 好看 | hǎo kàn | good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good |
| 使用 | shǐ yòng | to use; to employ |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “handy”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.