好況

こうきょう · koukyou · JLPT N1 · noun

conditions

💰 好 (good) + 況 (situation) = good situation: a prosperous economy

況 also appears in 状況 (jōkyō, 'situation'), so 好況 is the upbeat version: a good state of business and money flow.

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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