好感
hǎo gǎn · HSK 7
good opinion
😊👍 好 (good) + 感 (feeling) = a good feeling toward someone, a favorable impression
好 means good and 感 means feeling or sense (as in 感觉). Together they name the good feeling you hold about someone or something. Note 好 here is third tone hǎo (good), not fourth tone hào (to like).
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.'
感 — heart 心 + 咸 (xián, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 at the bottom carries the meaning of feeling or emotion, while 咸 supplies the sound. Together 感 conveys being moved in the heart, hence 'to feel,' 'sense,' or 'be affected by' something.