DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

好聚好散

Mandarin · pinyin hǎo jù hǎo sàn

to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

好: hǎo · good, excellent, fine; well
聚: jù · assemble, meet together, collect
散: sàn · scatter, disperse, break up

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–4–3–4 · hao3 ju4 hao3 san4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

好聚好散 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

Those who got together happily should also break up happily. / to part without hard feelings

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack