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還

hái, huán

still

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 睘 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

睘 sound component

睘  Sound component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

還 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
還 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
還 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
還 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 還
Freq.
Word
Meaning

还

still

还有

furthermore

还是

or

还好

not bad

偿还

to repay

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤ<r>en

hwaen

huán

turn around; return

*s-ɢʷen

zjwen

xuán

turn around, return; agile


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9359% of movies

41st most common character in movies

80th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

还

Unicode

U+9084

Shuowen

“還，復也。从辵，睘聲。”


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