免
miǎn HSK4

(hat), avoid

免 miǎn
avoid verb
to avert, escape, or prevent something undesirable from happening

为了免出差错，他把整份报告又检查了一遍。

wèi​le miǎn chū chā​cuò, tā bǎ zhěng fèn bào​gào yòu jiǎn​chá le yī biàn.

To avoid any mistakes, he checked the entire report once more.

prohibit verb
to be forbidden or disallowed, commonly used in public notices

闲人免进。

xián​rén miǎn jìn.

No admittance except on business.

dismiss verb
to remove or discharge from a position or office

他被免去了部长的职务。

tā bèi miǎn qù le bù​zhǎng de zhí​wù.

He was removed from his post as minister.

exempt verb
to excuse someone from a duty, fee, or obligation

持有学生证的游客购买门票时可以免票。

chí​yǒu xué​sheng​zhèng de yóu​kè gòu​mǎi mén​piào shí kě​yǐ miǎn piào.

Tourists with a student ID are exempt from paying for tickets.

Cross-References

Old variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
755th most common 248.3 per million
Movie subtitles
843rd most common 143.2 per million appears in 48% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.0 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
29.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+514D

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)