hái shi

Traditional: 還是

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还是 (hái shi) is a Chinese word meaning “still (as before); had better; unexpectedly”.

Meanings

  1. 1still (as before)
  2. 2had better
  3. 3unexpectedly
  4. 4or
Part of speech
adverb, conjunction

Characters in 还是

还hái · still是shì · to be (followed by substantives only)

Related words

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