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免得
miǎn​de HSK6

lest

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
免得 miǎn​de
lest verb
so as not to; so as to avoid

早点出发吧,免得堵车。

zǎo​diǎn chū​fā ba, miǎn​de dǔ​chē.

Let's leave early to avoid the traffic.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
7.33 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
6.39 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)