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Chinese symbol for “absolve”

赦免
shè miǎn
to pardon; to absolve; to exempt from punishment

The closest CC-CEDICT match for absolve is 赦免 (shè miǎn), defined as: to pardon; to absolve; to exempt from punishment.

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Characters and stroke order

赦 shè
to forgive, to pardon, to remit
radical 155 ⾚ · 11 strokes
免 miǎn
to spare, to excuse from; to evade
radical 10 ⼉ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “absolve”

WordPinyinMeaning
开脱 (開脫)kāi tuōto exculpate; to absolve

Related words

Other words that share a character with 赦免.

WordPinyinMeaning
特赦tè shèto grant a special pardon
大赦dà shèamnesty; general pardon
十恶不赦 (十惡不赦)shí è bù shèwicked beyond redemption (idiom); heinous
赦罪shè zuìto forgive (an offender)
特赦令tè shè lìngdecree to grant a special pardon
免费 (免費)miǎn fèifree (of charge)
避免bì miǎnto avert; to prevent
以免yǐ miǎnin order to avoid; so as not to

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.