Chinese Character Wiki
免

miǎn, wèn

(hat), avoid

Original meaning: 

hat

Pictograph of a person with a hat, now written as 冕. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

免 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
免 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
免 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
免 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
免 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

免  

miǎn

spare; excuse from; evade; to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited

免  

wèn

old variant of 絻[wèn]

Most common words with 免
Freq.
Word
Meaning

免费

free (of charge)

避免

to avert

免疫

immunity (to disease)

免

to exempt

豁免

to exempt

Component uses

Sound component in 11 characters (3 verified)

晚 冕 𠓥 勉 挽 輓 娩 谗 浼 絻 鞔

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

搀

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mr[o][r]ʔ

mjenX

miǎn

avoid


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 47.6534% of movies

843rd most common character in movies

755th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+514D


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