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还

hái, huán

still, return

Simplified form of 還. 辶 represents the meaning. 不 replaces the traditional phonetic component 睘.

Components
不 simplified component

不  Simplified component

bù

  

no

Shorthand for the 睘 component in the traditional character 還.

辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

Evolution

还 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
还 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

还 (還) 

hái

still, yet, also, besides; still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else

还 (還) 

Huán

surname Huan

还 (還) 

huán

to pay back; to return

Most common words with 还
Freq.
Word
Meaning

还

still

还有

furthermore

还是

or

还好

not bad

偿还

to repay

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9359% of movies

41st most common character in movies

80th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

還

Unicode

U+8FD8


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