miǎn

HSK 7–9

免 (miǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office”.

Meanings

  1. 1to excuse sb
  2. 2to exempt
  3. 3to remove or dismiss from office
  4. 4to avoid
  5. 5to avert
  6. 6to escape
  7. 7to be prohibited
Part of speech
verb

Related words

免费free (of charge)避免to avert豁免to exempt豁免权immunity from prosecution免old variant of 絻[wen4]赦免to pardon免得so as not to; so as to avoid免疫immunity (to disease)以免in order to avoid不可避免(idiom) inevitable; unavoidable难免hard to avoid幸免to avoid (an unpleasant fate)

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