This paper examines the synchronic function and diachronic change of ‘huozhe(或者)’ and ‘haishi(还是)’ from the perspective of linguistic typology. In this paper, we analyzed the correlation between the form and function of ‘huozhe(或者)’ and ‘haishi(还是)’ in the fields such as semantic relation and function of two conjuncts, appearance sentence types. In conclusion, ‘huozhe(或者)’ and ‘haishi(还是)’ correspond to the categories of ‘standard disjunction’ and ‘interrogative disjunction’ classified by the presence or absence of choice request for the listener. In addition, we confirmed that some non-typical use can be explained in a system classified as ‘standard disjunction’ and ‘interrogative disjunction’. This paper also confirmed that the synchronic function and diachronic change of ‘huozhe(或者)’ and ‘haishi(还是)’ correspond to the language universals. Synchronically, Chinese disjunction markers are corresponds to type2 in which the markers of ‘standard disjunction’ and ‘interrogative disjunction’ are different but the use of markers is essential. Chinese and Korean have universality but also individuality. From an diachronic point of view, Chinese disjunction markers are consistent with language-universal development. It can be confirmed that both the Chinese ‘standard disjunction’ originating from the epistemic uncertainty and the Chinese ‘interrogative disjunction’ originating from the parallel structure question correspond to the language universals.