恰好

qià hǎo · HSK 6

as it turns out

🎯 qia hao sounds like CHECK-HOW — check how perfectly it fits!

恰 (qià) means just right or fitting, 好 (hǎo) means good. Together they mean exactly right, by coincidence. Like when you check how something lines up and it fits perfectly — just the right amount at just the right time.

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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