好き好き

すきずき · sukizuki · JLPT N2 · noun

taste

好き好き = 好き + 好き: like + like, so each person likes their own thing

Doubling 好き (to like) signals that people simply like different things. Taste is personal, so no one is wrong.

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.'

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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