HSK 2 · Time

还 hái “still” in Chinese

Traditional 還

What 还 means

  1. still, also
  2. still in progress
  3. still more
  4. yet
  5. even more
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • in addition

Also read huán: “to return”

See the page for 还 huán

How to say 还

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale还hái2nd tone, rising

还 in a sentence

  1. 他还在这儿。

    Tā hái zài zhèr.

    He is still here.

    Sentence #465860 from Tatoeba

  2. 我还没完成作业。

    Wǒ hái méi wánchéng zuòyè.

    I still haven’t finished my homework.

    Sentence #835614 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 还有什么？

    Hái yǒu shénme?

    What else?

    Sentence #407088 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 还 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 还 (hái) with each of its parts in a different colour
还háistill
  • 不no · bù
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

Memory aidWalk 辶 back again: to return (huán). Read hái, it means “still”.

How to write 还

还 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

还 (hái) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 还 (hái). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 还

Words with 还

还是háishi · or讨价还价tǎojiàhuánjià · to bargain归还guīhuán · to return (something)还原huányuán · to restore偿还chánghuán · to repay

More words: Time

时间shíjiān · time一起yìqǐ · together已经yǐjīng · already正在zhèngzài · in the process of就jiù · then半bàn · half春chūn · spring season当然dāngrán · of course

FAQs

还 (hái) means “still, also” or “still in progress”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it hái: hái with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 还 is written 還. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 还 from the suggestions. Typing hai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
Yes. Read huán, 还 means “to return”. That reading has its own page. Read hái, it means “still, also”.
还 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.