Expressing good luck with "haihao"

幸亏 or 幸好 mean "fortunately" or "luckily". They can be used to express that because something has happened you have been able to avoid some difficulty. It is often used together with 不然.

Structure with 幸亏

幸亏/幸好 + accidental reasons

Examples

• 幸亏 我们 走 得 早。
• 幸亏 你 在，不然 我 不 知道 该 找 谁。
• 幸好 今天 带 伞 了，不然 要 淋湿 了。

Structure with 还好

还好 + accidental reasons

“还好” can also be used to mean “fortunately”

“还好”也有fortunately的意思，但是和“幸亏”和“多亏”相比更加口语。

Examples

• 还好 我 没 听 他的，不然 我 就 倒霉 了。
• 还好 我 保存 了，不然 文件 都 丢 了。

See also

• "Thanks to" somebody with "duokui"

Sources and further reading

Dictionaries

• 现代汉语词典（第5版） (pp. 1527) →buy