好人
hǎorén · HSK 2
good person
😊 好 (good) + 人 (person) = good person
Literal compound: 好 means good and 人 means person, so 好人 is a good person. Often used for someone agreeable who tries to get along with everyone — sometimes faintly damning, like calling someone too nice to say no.
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.'
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.