好玩儿

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🎉 好 (good) + 玩 (play) + 儿 (er-suffix) = good to play with = fun

好玩 literally combines 好 (good) and 玩 (play); the 儿 suffix is a Beijing-dialect diminutive that softens the word. Together: something good-to-play-with, hence fun or amusing.

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.'

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