還 (waan4) — go/come back; return (to a place) in Cantonese
waanˎ₄還简 还
Mandarin Pinyin: huan2
Meaning of 還
noungo/come back; return (to a place)
noungive/pay back; return (sth)
noun(verb) 1. pay back (money); 2. return (something)
Example Sentences with 還
你想吃麵還是吃飯？
Do you want to eat noodles or rice?
月尾之前所有借讀嘅書籍必須歸還圖書館。
All books are to be returned to the library before the end of the month.
我們今年的聖誕樹要買真的還是人造的？
Shall we get a real Christmas tree or an artificial one?
還帶著睡眼惺忪的小學生在路旁等校車。
The sleepy-eyed students are waiting for the school bus by the road.
hangˍ₆幸houˊ²好waanˎ₄還jauˏ₅有gungˉ¹公manˎ₄民dongˊ²黨
Thank goodness, we still have the Civic Party.
Words Containing 還
生還saang1 waan4
to survive
還算好waan4 syun3 hou2
fairly good, could be worse
還沒waan4 mut6
not yet
借屍還魂ze3 si1 waan4 wan4
a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise
雙倍奉還soeng1 pui5 fung6 waan4
return sth. two-fold; to give sth. back to sb. in double portion (retribution), get back at someone twice as bad as they did to you
一報還一報jat1 bou3 waan4 jat1 bou3
retribution paid out in kind
返老還童faan2 lou5 waan4 tung4
be rejuvenated; have one's youthful vigor revived
還書waan4 syu1
to return a book, take a book back
還好waan4 hou2
not bad
還得神落waan4 dak1 san4 lok6
thank God, as voiced when one has avoided trouble or calamity of some kind
還書箱waan4 syu1 soeng1
drop-in box (for return of library books)
欲拒還迎juk6 keoi5 waan4 jing4
initially want to refuse it, but finally accept it
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