避
bì HSK4

avoid

避 bì
to prevent verbadjective
to keep away; to protect against; to ward off
to avoid verb
to dodge; to shun; to evade; to escape or hide from; to withdraw from (e.g. society or a formal setting)

我以为诗人要避用陈词滥调。

wǒ yǐ​wéi shī​rén yào bì yòng chén​cí​làn​diào.

I thought poets were supposed to avoid clichés.

你为什么不进来避避寒？

nǐ wèi​shén​me bù jìn lai bì bì hán?

Why don't you come in out of the cold?

to yield
(literary) to make way for; to be inferior to; to be second to

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
991st most common 164.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,083rd most common 88.3 per million appears in 37% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.72 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
18.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+907F

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