还是 (hái shi): meaning and stroke order
还是 (hái shi) means still (as before), had better, unexpectedly, or.
还是
- Simplified
- 还是
- Traditional
- 還是
- Pinyin
- hái shi
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Stroke order of 还是
还
- Huán surname Huan
- hái still; still in progress
- huán to pay back; to return
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 還
Stroke by stroke
是
- shì to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true
- shì variant of 是[shi4]
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 昰
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Meaning of 还是
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hái shi
Traditional 還是
- still (as before)
- had better
- unexpectedly
- or
Radicals of the characters
- 还
- Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 8 strokes · built from 辶 and 不
- 是
- Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on top, 𤴓 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
还是 in our stories
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它累得游不动了，可是还是没有回家。
tā lèi de yóu bú dòng le kěshì háishi méiyǒu huí jiā
It was too tired to swim, but it still didn't go home.
From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3
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庙里的墙上有一幅很大的山水画，可是只画了一半，另一半还是白的。
miào lǐ de qiáng shàng yǒu yì fú hěn dà de shānshuǐhuà kěshì zhǐ huà le yí bàn lìng yí bàn háishi bái de
On the temple wall was a huge landscape painting, but only half had been painted; the other half was still blank.
From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5
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可是天空始终没有完全恢复原样：直到今天，太阳和月亮还是向西落下，中国的大河也大多向东流入大海。
kěshì tiānkōng shǐzhōng méiyǒu wánquán huīfù yuányàng zhídào jīntiān tàiyáng hé yuèliang háishi xiàng xī luò xià Zhōngguó de dà hé yě dàduō xiàng dōng liú rù dàhǎi
But the sky never fully returned to its old shape: to this day the sun and moon set in the west, and most of China's great rivers flow east into the sea.
From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 还是
- The little carp's decision HSK 3
- The girl in the painting HSK 5
- Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).