Chinese symbol for “preferences”
好恶
hào wù
Traditional: 好惡
lit. likes and dislikes; preferences; taste
The closest CC-CEDICT match for preferences is 好恶 (hào wù), defined as: lit. likes and dislikes; preferences; taste.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “preferences”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 好恶.
| 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 |
| 邪恶 (邪惡) | xié è | sinister; vicious |
| 恶心 (噁心) | ě xīn | variant of 恶心 (ě xīn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “preferences”.
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.