Hold the question mark at the fork and you get 还是

Where the picture shows up in 还是/或者

1. 1

   the fork you hand over

   你喝咖啡还是喝茶？

   nǐ hē kāfēi háishi hē chá

   Coffee or tea?

2. 2

   either road is fine

   咖啡或者茶都行。

   kāfēi huòzhě chá dōu xíng

   Coffee or tea, both work for me.

   Put 还是 in a plain statement and it starts sounding like a question.

3. 3

   pinning it to one of two

   我们明天或者后天去。

   wǒmen míngtiān huòzhě hòutiān qù

   Let's go tomorrow or the day after.

4. 4

   the road you picked after weighing

   还是你来吧，我不太会。

   háishi nǐ lái ba, wǒ bú tài huì

   You do it — I'm not much good at it.

   还是…吧 at the front of a sentence means having thought it over, let's rather do this.

5. 5

   a fork with the question still inside

   我不知道他去还是不去。

   wǒ bù zhīdào tā qù háishi bú qù

   I don't know whether he's going or not.

   Even inside a statement, if a question sits in there, the word is 还是.