好
hǎo · HSK 1
good
👩👦 好 = 女 (woman) + 子 (child); woman with child = good
Classic compound character: the left radical 女 means woman/mother and the right 子 means child. Ancient scribes treated mother-plus-child as the prototype of what is good. Same hǎo also appears in 你好 (hello) and 好吃 (tasty).
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'