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还 — still; still in progress

still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more

Pinyin
hái · huán · Huán
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — hái, huán, Huán — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 还: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

还 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 还

Words with 还 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 还háito pay back; to returnHSK 1
  2. 还是háishistill; had better; unexpectedly; orHSK 2
  3. 还huánto pay back; to returnHSK 3
  4. 退还tuìhuánto return; to send back; to refund; to rebateHSK 5
  5. 归还guīhuánto return sth; to revertHSK 6
  6. 还原huányuánto restore to the original state; to reconstructHSK 6
  7. 偿还chánghuánto repay; to reimburseHSK 7–9
  8. 返还fǎnhuánrestitutionHSK 7–9
  9. 讨价还价tǎojià-huánjiàto haggle over price; to bargainHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.