免 (miǎn): to excuse sb, to exempt, to remove or dismiss from office
免 (miǎn) is a Chinese character meaning “to excuse sb.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺈ (structural), 口 (structural) and 儿 (structural). It ranks #755 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- to excuse sb
- to exempt
- to remove or dismiss from office
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 免
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 免费verb | miǎn fèi | free (of charge) | 4 |
| 避免verb | bì miǎn | to avert | 5 |
| 免疫verb | miǎn yì | immunity (to disease) | 6 |
| 以免conjunction | yǐ miǎn | in order to avoid | 6 |
| 难免adjective | nán miǎn | hard to avoid | 6 |
| 免税verb | miǎn shuì | not liable to taxation (of monastery, imperial family etc) | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 豁免verb | huò miǎn | to exempt |
| 豁免权noun | huò miǎn quán | immunity from prosecution |
| 赦免verb | shè miǎn | to pardon |
| 免得conjunction | miǎn de | so as not to |
| 不可避免phrase | bù kě bì miǎn | (idiom) inevitable |
| 幸免verb | xìng miǎn | to avoid (an unpleasant fate) |
| 免受verb | miǎn shòu | to avoid suffering |
| 未免adverb | wèi miǎn | unavoidably |
| 免除verb | miǎn chú | to prevent |
| 免于verb | miǎn yú | to be saved from |
| 免遭verb | miǎn zāo | to avoid suffering |
| 免责verb | miǎn zé | exemption from responsibility |
| 在所难免phrase | zài suǒ nán miǎn | to be unavoidable (idiom) |
| 免不了verb | miǎn bù liǎo | unavoidable |
| 免疫力noun | miǎn yì lì | immunity |
免 appears in 74 compound words: 54 as the first character, 27 as the last, and 19 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 免 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (8)
Example Sentences
凭学生证可以免费参观博物馆。
Píng xuéshēng zhèng kěyǐ miǎnfèi cānguān bówùguǎn.
With a student ID, you can visit the museum for free.
业界倡上调基本免税额一成 预算案料难大派糖 吁多照顾打工...
yè jiè chàng shàng diào jī běn miǎn shuì é yī chéng yù suàn àn liào nán dà pài táng xū duō zhào gù dǎ gōng . . .
The industry advocates raising the basic tax exemption by 10%, and the budget is difficult to distribute sugar, calling for more care of part-time workers...
... 游客百元入住大理医院住宿中心:设施新兼免费泊车
. . . yóu kè bǎi yuán rù zhù dà lǐ yī yuàn zhù sù zhōng xīn : shè shī xīn jiān miǎn fèi bó chē
... Tourists stay in Dali Hospital Accommodation Center for 100 yuan: new facilities and free parking
(新春走基层)福建福州:民众春节免费乘坐地铁出行
xīn chūn zǒu jī céng fú jiàn fú zhōu mín zhòng chūn jié miǎn fèi chéng zuò dì tiě chū háng
(Chinese New Year) Fuzhou, Fujian: people travel free on the subway in the Spring Festival
...泾喊你来赏梅,只要名字里有这个字,门票全免!
. . . 泾 hǎn nǐ lái shǎng méi , zhī yāo míng zì lǐ yǒu zhè gě zì , mén piào quán miǎn !
... Jing calls you to enjoy the plum, as long as the name has this word, the ticket is free!
中俄互免签证下的“新鲜事”
zhōng é hù miǎn qiān zhèng xià de xīn xiān shì
New Developments Under the China-Russia Visa-Free Agreement
有时候盟军无法避免战争。
Yǒushíhou méngjūn wúfǎ bìmiǎn zhànzhēng.
Sometimes the Allies could not avoid battle.
你想要知道如何避免皱纹吗？
Nǐ xiǎngyào zhīdào rúhé bìmiǎn zhòuwén ma?
Would you like to know how to prevent getting wrinkles?
堤坝保护了城市免受洪灾。
Dībà bǎohù le chéngshì miǎnshòu hóngzāi.
The bank secured the city from a flood.
小洞及时补，免遭大洞苦。
Xiǎo dòng jíshí bǔ, miǎnzāo dà dòng kǔ.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Character Family
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