还是
hái​shihái​shì HSK1

still

还是 (還是) hái​shi frequency
still verb
continuing to be as before

这么多年过去了，他还是老样子。

zhè​me duō nián guò​qù le, tā hái​shi lǎo yàng​zi.

After all these years, he is still the same.

or conjunction
used to introduce an alternative, typically in a question

你要咖啡还是茶？

nǐ yào kā​fēi hái​shi chá?

Would you like coffee or tea?

had better adverb
indicating a preference or a recommended course of action

天快黑了，我们还是回家吧。

tiān kuài hēi le, wǒ​men hái​shi huí​jiā ba.

It's getting dark; we'd better go home.

还是 (還是) hái​shì
nevertheless adverb
conjunction or adverb indicating that despite a previous situation or condition, the fact or state remains unchanged or is still the case

Frequency
Movie subtitles
596.1 per million appears in 90% of films
Written text
776.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICTAI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)