還 (huán)
to return (something); to pay back
How 還 is written
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 還
- Simplified
- 还
還 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- huán
- surname Huan
- hái
- still; still in progress; still more; yet
Common words using 還
- 還是 háishi
- or; still; nevertheless
- 還好 háihǎo
- not bad; tolerable; fortunately
- 交還 jiāohuán
- to return sth; to hand back
- 以牙還牙 yǐyáhuányá
- a tooth for a tooth (retaliation)
- 借屍還魂 jièshīhuánhún
- lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise
- 償還 chánghuán
- to repay; to reimburse
- 回還 huíhuán
- to return
- 奉還 fènghuán
- to return with thanks; to give back (honorific)
- 往還 wǎnghuán
- contacts; dealings
- 歸還 guīhuán
- to return sth; to revert
- 生還 shēnghuán
- to return alive; to survive
- 生還者 shēnghuánzhě
- survivor
還 in a sentence
記得把書還給圖書館。
Jìdé bǎ shū huán gěi túshūguǎn.
“Remember to return the book to the library.”
How common is 還?
還 is the 80th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 37.7% of all running text.
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