還
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- (verb) 1. pay back (money); 2. return (something)
Meanings · waan4
- still
- still in progress
- still more
- yet
- even more
- in addition
- fairly
- passably (good)
- as early as
- even
- also
- else
- besides
- to return (to a place)
- to give back
- to repay
- to return something
- again
- to revert to the original state
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 還 Huán CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Huan
- 還 hái CC-CEDICT · Mandarinstill; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); …
- 還 huán CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto pay back; to return
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: hai2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 17 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
syun4 · waan4
Cantonese word readings for 還. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to return to a place; to go back to a place
- to return an object; to give back
- to do or give something in return
- (Teochew, Malaysia Hokkien, Singapore Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien) to pay
- a surname
character
- still; yet; indicates that the phenomenon or observation still exists or the action is still ongoing
- also; as well
- even more; indicates an increase from a certain level or a supplement
- (before adjectives, mostly positive) passably; (surprisingly) quite
- (often in rhetorical questions) indicates condition and contrast, interchangeable with 都 (dōu); even
- indicates unexpectedness; really
- indicates past events; emphasising earliness
- (Hakka, usually in exclamation) very
adv
- (Nanjing Mandarin, interrogative) have or have not; do or do not; will or will not
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 旋 (“to rotate; to turn around”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
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