还是 還是

还是還是 in English

hái shi adverb, conjunction HSK 2
still (as before) / had better / unexpectedly / or

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 还 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 还 Show the animation
Le caractère 還 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 是 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 是 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 還, the traditional character: 还 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 不,我还是喜欢吃蔬菜。

    No, I still prefer eating vegetables.

  • 不喝酒的男人还是男人吗?

    Are men who don't drink still men?

  • 不管你同意还是不同意,我还是要做。

    I am going to do it whether you agree or not.

  • 不管我跟她说了多少次,她还是继续犯同样的错误。

    No matter how often I tell her, she keeps making the same mistake.

  • 什么。。。?你还是不会开车?

    What... you still don't know how to drive?

  • 他反复读了好几遍她寄来的信,还是没明白她的意思。

    Over and over again, he read the letter she had mailed him, but he still did not understand it.

  • 他在要结婚之际决定还是不结婚了。

    Shortly before his wedding, he decided not to get married.

  • 他得了感冒,但还是去上了班。

    Though he had a cold, he went to work.

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